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Vigna umbellata (Thunb.) Ohwi et Ohashi or Vigna angularis (Willd.) Ohwi et Ohashi 赤小豆 (Chixiaodou, Rice Bean)

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As a kind of small grain, with high protein, low fat, rich nutrition and delicious taste, rice bean is one of the main edible beans in China. Because of its rosy seed coat and rich starch in seeds, it is also named as ‘Red bean’ or ‘Adzuki bean’. The cultivation procedure and application techniques of rice bean are extensively documented in the ancient Chinese agricultural book Qimin Yaoshu (533–544 AD), in which it indicates that rice bean plantation has at least 1500 years of history in China.

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  1. School of Pharmacy, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 611137, Chengdu, China

    Yingfang Wei, Jie Yan, Fei Long & Guanghua Lu

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  1. Institute of Medicinal Plant Development, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, Beijing, China

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  2. Inst. of Chinese Materia Medica, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

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  3. Aquatic and Crop Resource Development, National Research Council of Canada, Halifax, Canada

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Wei, Y., Yan, J., Long, F., Lu, G. (2015). Vigna umbellata (Thunb.) Ohwi et Ohashi or Vigna angularis (Willd.) Ohwi et Ohashi 赤小豆 (Chixiaodou, Rice Bean). In: Liu, Y., Wang, Z., Zhang, J. (eds) Dietary Chinese Herbs. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-211-99448-1_63

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