벼 중만생 양질 내병 다수성 ‘희망찬’

A Medium-late Japonica Rice Cultivar ‘Huimangchan’ with Super High Yield

‘Huimangchan’ is a new japonica rice variety developed and registered by the rice breeding team of Department of Rice and Winter Cereal Crop, NICS, RDA in 2011. This variety was derived from the three-way cross of ‘Milyang165’, ‘Shindongjin’ and ‘YR19105-Acp222’. This variety has about 126 days of growth duration from transplanting to harvesting in Honam and Youngnam plain of Korea. It is about 91 cm in culm length and tolerance to lodging. In reaction to biotic stresses, it shows moderate resistance to blast, resistance to bacterial blight pathogen races from K1 to K3, and rice stripe virus, but susceptible to other major diseases and insect pests. The milled rice of ‘Huimangchan’ has high quality, midium short grain. The milled rice yield of this variety is about 6.18 T/ha in local adaptability test for three years. ‘Huymangchan’ would be adaptable to Middle plain, Honam plain and Youngnam plain area of Korea.