‘호농’은 국립식량과학원 벼맥류부에서 운봉31호의 개화시에 MNU를 수정란(미숙배)에 처리한 후대에서 선발하여 2009년도에 품종보호권을 출원한 품종이다. 1. 남서해안지, 호남 및 영남평야지 보통기 보비재배에서 평균 출수기가 8월 19일로 ‘남평벼’보다 2일 늦은 중만생종이다. 2. 간장은 79 cm로 ‘남평벼’와 비슷하며, 수당립수는 적고 등숙비율이 다소 높은 중립종이다. 3. 위조현상은 나타나지 않았으며 성숙기 하엽노화가 늦고 수발아는 남평벼보다
‘Honong’ 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 2009. This variety was derived from mutagen MNU (N-methyl-N-nitrosourea) treatment on fertilized egg cells of Unbong31. This variety has about 126 days growth duration from transplanting to harvesting in west-southern coast, Honam and Youngnam plain of Korea. It has 79 cm in culm length and is tolerant to lodging. In reaction to biotic and abiotic stresses, it show resistance to blast, bacterial blight pathogen races from K1 to K3 and stripe virus, but susceptible to other major diseases and insect pests. The milled rice of ‘Honong’ exhibits translucent, relatively clear non-glutinous endosperm and medium short grain. It has higher amylose content (20.3%) and lower protein content (6.3%), and good palatability of cooked rice compared with Nampyeong. The milled rice yield performance of this variety is about 5.44MT/ha in local adaptability test for three years. ‘Honong’ would be adaptable to west-southern coast, Honam and Youngnam plain of Korea.