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- DictionaryRice/rīs/
noun
- 1. a swamp grass which is widely cultivated as a source of food, especially in Asia.
verb
- 1. force (cooked potatoes or other vegetables) through a sieve or ricer: North American "riced boiled potatoes"
2 days ago · It was not until the discovery of rice-related archaeological evidence beginning in the 1970s at sites such as Hemudu, Shangshan, and other locations in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River that the international scientific community began to recognize this region as a significant area for the origin of rice.
3 days ago · The researchers suggested that wild rice was already widespread in the lower Yangtze region about 100,000 years ago, setting the stage for subsequent rice use and domestication.
1 day ago · According to a study published in Science on May 24, scientists have used phytolith analysis and other methods to reveal the continuous evolutionary history of rice from wild to domesticated over an astonishing span of 100,000 years, providing new evidence for understanding the development of human society and the origins of agricultural civilization, and confirming that China is the ...
1 day ago · Credit: Zhang Jianping. A groundbreaking study has revealed the incredible 100,000-year history of rice evolution from wild plants to domesticated crops. This research, published in Science, shows ...
5 days ago · Origins of agriculture, the active production of useful plants or animals in ecosystems that have been created by people. Agriculture has often been conceptualized narrowly, in terms of specific combinations of activities and organisms—wet-rice production in Asia, wheat farming in Europe, cattle.
10 hours ago · Rice made South Carolina planters rich. By 1774, the coastal region exported some 66 million pounds annually of the grain, all sowed and harvested by enslaved workers in treacherous fields ...
4 days ago · It was once wildly believed to have originated in Southeast Asia, but since the 1970s, an increasing number of scholars started to be convinced that the rice's birthplace was China.
