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Division 4.2 Description:

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Breed with a medium-early growing cycle, medium height, small, muticate, pearled grain. Genealogy: Nano x Vialone;

Varietal group: Japonica;

Year first cultivated: 1937;

Growing cycle: 155 days;

Stem length: 95,2 cm;

Node colour: violet;

Internode colour: striped violet;

Foliar limb: striped violet colour, pendant habit;

Sheath colour: violet;

Auricula colour: violet;

Joint colour: violet;

Ligule: length: 17,0 mm, bifid type, violet colour; leaf habit: descending;

Panicle: length: 17,8 cm, pendant habit open type, well exserted, muticate;

Stigma colour: pigmented;

Glume colour: violet-brown;

Glumella colour: violet-brown carina, violet-brown calotte, violet-brown apex;

Spikelet: no beard, average pilosity, length: 8,1 mm, width 4,1 mm, weight of 1 000 = 37,9 g;

Caryopsis: white pericarp, length: 5,6-5,8 mm, width: 3,4-3,6 mm, thickness: 2,0-2,2 mm, shape (length/width ratio) 1.5-1.7, weight of 1 000 grains = 31,1 g;

Tolerance to cold: plantule: high, flowering time: medium; tolerance to high water (40-50): high;

Speed of plantule development: high; level of fertiliser required: medium; yield at processing: 55 %.

In addition, in order to further differentiate Riso Vialone Nano Veronese:

a maximum allowable limit of 2 % for varietal impurities; the following physico-chemical parameters must also be met:

— amylose

  • no less than 21 % dry matter;

    • — gelatinisation time

  • between 15 and 20 minutes;

    • — consistency index

  • no less than 0,85 kg/cm2;

    • — viscosity index

  • no more than 2,5 g/cm.