{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2009-205/annex-II/division-SUMMARY/division-4/division-4.2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2009-205/annex-II/division-SUMMARY/division-4/division-4.2.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2009/205",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EC) No 205/2009 of 16 March 2009 approving minor amendments to the specification for a name entered in the register of protected designations of origin and protected geographical indications (Riso Nano Vialone Veronese (PGI))",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2009-205",
  "path": "annex/II/division/SUMMARY/division/4/division/4.2",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "4.2",
  "heading": "Description:",
  "text": "Breed with a medium-early growing cycle, medium height, small, muticate, pearled grain. Genealogy: Nano x Vialone;\nVarietal group: Japonica;\nYear first cultivated: 1937;\nGrowing cycle: 155 days;\nStem length: 95,2 cm;\nNode colour: violet;\nInternode colour: striped violet;\nFoliar limb: striped violet colour, pendant habit;\nSheath colour: violet;\nAuricula colour: violet;\nJoint colour: violet;\nLigule: length: 17,0 mm, bifid type, violet colour; leaf habit: descending;\nPanicle: length: 17,8 cm, pendant habit open type, well exserted, muticate;\nStigma colour: pigmented;\nGlume colour: violet-brown;\nGlumella colour: violet-brown carina, violet-brown calotte, violet-brown apex;\nSpikelet: no beard, average pilosity, length: 8,1 mm, width 4,1 mm, weight of 1 000 = 37,9 g;\nCaryopsis: 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;\nTolerance to cold: plantule: high, flowering time: medium; tolerance to high water (40-50): high;\nSpeed of plantule development: high; level of fertiliser required: medium; yield at processing: 55 %.\nIn addition, in order to further differentiate Riso Vialone Nano Veronese:\na maximum allowable limit of 2 % for varietal impurities; the following physico-chemical parameters must also be met:\n— amylose no less than 21 % dry matter;\n— gelatinisation time between 15 and 20 minutes;\n— consistency index no less than 0,85 kg/cm2;\n— viscosity index no more than 2,5 g/cm.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2009/205/annex/II/division/SUMMARY/division/4/division/4.2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:51:37.045921+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}