“wangkeumbora”is a new japonica rice cultivar developed from a three way cross of Jinbubyeo, Odaebyeo and Fukei126 at Honam Agricultural Reaserch Institute (HARI), NICS, RDA, in 2006. This cultivar has about 110 days growth duration from transplanting to harvesting under Korean climate condition. The milled kernel of “wangkeumbora”is translucent with non- glutinous endosperm. Amylose content of “wangkeumbora”is about 19.3%. “wangkeumbora”has better palatability of cooked rice compared with “daebyeo”and shows high resistant reaction to the blast, but susceptible to major diseases and insect pests. The milled rice yield of "Hwangkeumbora" is about 5.37 MT/ha under the standard fertilizer level of the ordinary transplanting cultivation. “wangkeumbora”would be adaptable for ordinary transplanting in northern plain, mid-mountainous and southern mountainous of Korea.

‘nnuri’is a japonica rice cultivar developed from the cross between ‘ilyang 165’and HR14732-B-67-2-3 at Honam Agricultural Research Institute (HARI), NICS, RDA, in 2005. This cultivar has a short grain shape and about 121 days growth duration from transplanting to harvesting in Korean climate condition. In reaction to biotic and abiotic stresses, it shows resistance to blast, bacterial blight pathogen from K1 to K3 and stripe virus, but susceptible to other major diseases and insect pests. The milled kernel of ‘nnuri’is translucent with non-glutinous endosperm. It has about 18.6% of amylose content and better palatability of cooked rice compared with ‘hucheongbyeo’cultivated in Kyunggi province. The milled rice yield of ‘nnuri’is about 5.94 MT/ha under the standard fertilizer level of the ordinary transplanting cultivation. ‘nnuri’would be adaptable to southern plain of Cheonan, middle-northern plain, and southern mid-mountainous of Korea.

‘'Sinunbong 1’' is a japonica rice cultivar developed from the cross between “"Sangjubyeo”", high yield cultivar and ‘'Unbong 17’', cold tolerance at Honam Agricultural Research Institute (HARI), NICS, RDA, in 2005. This cultivar has a short grain shape and about 111 days growth duration from transplanting to harvesting in Korean climate condition. This cultivar shows high resistant reaction to the blast, but susceptible to bacterial blight and strip virus. This variety has cold tolerance, compared to Odaebyeo. The milled kernels of ‘'Sinunbong 1’' are translucent with non-glutinous endosperm. It has about 19.2% of amylose content and better palatability of cooked rice compared with ‘'Odaebyeo’'. The milled rice yield of ‘'Sinunbong 1’' is about 5.46 MT/ha under the standard fertilizer level of the ordinary transplanting cultivation. ‘'Sinunbong 1’' would be adaptable to the northern plain, mid-mountainous, southern mountainous of Korea.

‘'Hwangkeumnuri’' is a 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 ‘'Milyang 165’' (Junambyeo) with good quality and high yield and HR14732-B-67-2-3 with multi-disease resistance. This variety has about 125 days growth duration from transplanting to harvesting in west-southern coast, Honam and Youngnam plain of Korea. It is about 76 cm in culm length and tolerance to lodging. In reaction to biotic and abiotic stresses, it shows resistance to blast, bacterial blight pathogen from K1 to K3 and stripe virus, but susceptible to other major diseases and insect pests. The milled rice of ‘'Hwangkeumnuri’' exhibits translucent, relatively clear non-glutinous endosperm and midium short grain. It has similar amylose content of 18.9% and lower protein content of 6.2%, and good palatability of cooked rice compared with ‘'Nampyeongbyeo’'. The milled rice yield performance of this variety is about 5.74 MT/ha in local adaptability test for three years. ‘'Hwangkeumnuri’' would be adaptable to west-southern coast, Honam and Yeongnam plain of Korea.

Blast resistance of 18 rice cultivars which recommended as a high quality rice cultivars evaluated by blast nursery test, seedling test, and field screening and sequential planting methods. Sangmibyeo, Hwayeongbyeo, and Dongjin 1 were showed high resistance reaction to leaf blast at the blast nursery continuously, while Chucheongbyeo showed highest disease severity. All of the early maturing cultivars, Odaebyeo, Junghwabyeo, and Sangmibyeo, showed the lowest compatibility against 25 blast isolates. Saechucheongbyeo, a multiline variety of Chucheongbyeo genetic background showed 45.8%, half compatibility of 82.6% in Chucheongbyeo against 25 isolates screened. Diseased leaf areas (DLA, %) of cultivars were very low level at all test sites in the field test. Three cultivars, Sangmibyeo, Ilmibyeo, and Junghwabyeo didn’t show any leaf blast lesions across the test sites. The most variable incidences of panicle blast were observed on Odaebyeo which was 42.4%, 0.4%. and 0.0% at Jaecheon, Naju, and Chuncheon, respectively. In the sequential planting method, four rice cultivars, Nampyeongbyeo, Sindongjinbyeo, Hwayeongbyeo, and Junambyeo showed less than 40% disease leaf area (DLA) from 1st planting to 7th planting, so those cultivars were considered as a durable resistant rice cultivar against rice blast diseases.