A New Waxy Rice Cultivar with Multiple Disease Resistance and High Yield, “Boseogchal”

Boseogchal is a new japonica rice cultivar developed from the three-way cross of Hwayoung, Tamjin and Sinseonchal at Honam Agricultural Research Institute (HARI), RDA, in 2004. It is a waxy rice with about 117 days of growth duration from transplanting to harvesting. This cultivar shows multiple resistant reactions to the bacterial blight (K₁ race), leaf blast and stripe virus disease. Boseogchal yielded about 5.21 MT/ha in milled rice under the standard fertilizer level of the ordinary transplanting cultivation. Boseogchal is adaptable to the middle plain of Honam area in Korea.