“aegseolchal”is a new Japonica type waxi rice variety developed and registered by the rice breeding team of Department of Rice and Winter Cereal Crop, NICS, RDA in 2007. This variety was derived from a across between Iksan435 which is highly tolerant to lodging and high yield potential, and Iksan425 which is resistance to multiple diseases. This variety has about 120 days of growth duration from transplanting to harvesting in middle, Honam and Youngnam plain of Korea. It is about 80 cm in culm length and tolerant to lodging. It is moderately resistant to blast, and resistance to bacterial blight pathogen races from K1 to K3, but susceptible to other major diseases and insect pests. “aegseolchal”is midium-short grain and the milled rice exhibits high whiteness. The milled rice yield was about 5.37 MT/ha in local adaptability test for three years. “aegseolchal” would be adaptable to plain areas south of the Chungnam Province of Korea.

• 김정곤(국립식량과학원 벼맥류부) | Chung-Kon Kim
• 신운철(국립식량과학원 벼맥류부) | Woon-Chul Sin (9)
• 박현수(국립식량과학원 벼맥류부) | Hyun-Su Park
• 김우재(국립식량과학원 벼맥류부) | Woo-Jae Kim
• 김보경(국립식량과학원 벼맥류부) | Bo-Kyeong Kim
• 고재권(국립식량과학원 벼맥류부) | Jae-Kwon Ko
• 김기영(국립식량과학원 벼맥류부) | Ki-Yeong Kim
• 고종철(국립식량과학원 벼맥류부) | Jong-Cheol Ko
• 남정권(국립식량과학원 벼맥류부) | Jeong-Kwon Nam
• 하기용(국립식량과학원 벼맥류부) | Ki-Yong Ha Corresponding author