Hopyeongbyeo is an anther culture derived Japonica rice (Oriza sativa L.) cultivar from the cross between Hitomebore and Hwajinbyeo by the rice breeding team of Honam Agricultural Research Institute (HARI), NICS, RDA, in 2003. This cultivar has a about 126 days growth duration from transplanting to harvesting. The short and round grain shape of Hopyeongbyeo is translucent with non-glutinous endosperm. Amylose content of rice grain is about 17.8% and high palatability of cooked rice compared with Nampyeongbyeo. This cultivar shows resistant to bacterial blight pathogenes of K1. The milled rice yield of Hopyeongbyeo is about 5.13MT/ha at ordinary transplanting culture in the local adaptability test. Hopyeongbyeo would be adaptable for the southern plain area of Korea.

Boseogchal is a newjaponica rice cultivar developed from the three-way cross ofHwayoung, Tamjin and Sinseonchalat Honam Agricultural Research Institute (HARI), RDA, in 2004. It is a waxy rice with about 117 days of growth duration fromtransplanting to har

A new sprout-soybean cultivar, Sokang was developed from the cross between Namhaekong and Camp by the soy-i-als for evaluation and selection were carried out from 2000 to 2004. Sokang had a determinate growth habit with white flower,grayish brown pubescen

A new malting barley cultivar, “Sinho”, with a resistant gene (rym5) to barley yellow mosaic virus (BaYMV) was developed by the barley breeding team of National Crop Experiment Station (NCES), RDA in 1999. This cultivar was derived from the cross between