A new light green seed coat Azuki bean cultivar, "Yeonkeum" was developed at the National Institute of Crop Science(NICS) and the Yeongnam Agricultural Research Institute (YARI) in 2005. Yeonkeum was selected from the cross between Jaja-sodun and "IT12099

Research Institute (HARI), NTCS, RDA, in 2004. This cultivar has a short grain shape and about 123 days growth duration from trans-planting to harvesting under the reclaimed saline area of the south-western and the mid-western coastal plain and Honam plai

Various mutants of specialty rice were derived from Ilpumbyeo, a high-quality japonica rice cultivar, through muta-tion breeding by MNU treatment on fertilized egg cells of rice spikelets. The selected mutants revealed glutinous, semi-glutinousfthem were

Healthymi is a new sweetpotato variety developed from Mokpo Experiment Station, National Institute of Crop Science(NICS), RDA in 2003, which was for the utilization as food and starch. This variety was selected from the cross between Seonmi and MI9001-12