How do you plant and grow rice in the usa?

What are rice plant varieties w/c grow the shortest???

• can it grow in southeast asia?? thanx! 10pts waiting,

• Answer:

  With 40,000 different types of rice, cultivated and wild, grown across the globe, we have attempted to provide an overview of the major types most Americans are likely to encounter. Over the centuries, three main types of rice had developed in Asia, depending on the amylose content of the grain. They were called indica, long, slender grains high in amylose (a glucose polymer) that cook up into separate, fluffy grains of rice that in more primitive societies can be eaten with the fingers, and in more sophisticated ones work best as a bed for sauces or side dishes; japonica, shorter, plumper medium-grain rice that is low in amylose and cooks up sticky clumps to be eaten with chopsticks (and later, in paella, risotto and sushi); and javanica, with an intermediate amylose content and stickiness. Rice is further divided into long, medium and short-grained varieties; different regions grow different varieties.