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Koshihikari (Japanese: コシヒカリ, 越光, Hepburn: Koshihikari) is a popular cultivar of Japonica rice cultivated in Japan as well as Australia and the United States.

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Koshihikari
Hybrid parentage	'Nourin No.1' × 'Nourin No.22'
Subspecies	O. s. subsp. japonica
Cultivar group	temperate japonica
Cultivar	Nourin No.100 (Etsunan No.17)
Marketing names	Koshihikari
Origin	Japan, 1956

Koshihikari was first created in 1956 by combining 2 different strains of Nourin No.1 and Nourin No.22 at the Fukui Prefectural Agricultural Research Facility. It is one of the most highly grown varieties of rice in Japan[1] and is exported to other countries as a premium product.[2]

Etymology

The character for koshi (越) is used to represent the old Koshi Province, which stretched from present-day Fukui to Yamagata. Koshihikari can be translated as "the light of Koshi".

Related varieties

Other rice varieties close to its strains, such as Akitakomachi, Hitomebore, and Hinohikari were subsequently created by cross-breeding Koshihikari with other Japanese varieties of rice.

Characteristics

• Highly susceptible to blast disease
• Its stem collapses easily when mature

See also

• Japanese rice

References

External links

• JA Uonuma Minami (Japanese) JA branch in South of Uonuma area in Japan

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