벼 중만생 양질 내병 다수성 “다미”

A New Medium-late, High Yielding and Good Quality Rice Variety, “Dami”

“Dami” is a new japonica rice variety developed and registered by the rice breeding team of Honam Agricultural Research Institute, NICS, RDA in 2006. This variety was derived from a cross between Iksan438 with lodging tolerance and high yield potential, and Iksan426 This variety has about 122 days of growth duration from transplanting to harvesting in Honam and Youngnam plain of Korea. It is about 83 cm in culm length and tolerance to lodging. In reaction to biotic stresses, it shows moderately resistance to blast, and resistance to bacterial blight pathogen races from K 1 to K 3 , but susceptible to other major diseases and insect pests. The milled rice of “Dami” has high Quality, midium short grain. The milled rice yield of this variety is about 5.92 MT/ha in local adaptability test for three years. “Dami” would be adaptable to Middle plain, Honam plain and Youngnam plain area of Korea.