Sujinbyeo', a new mid-late maturing japonica rice variety (Oryza sativa L.), was developed by the rice breeding team of National Yeongnam Agricultural Experiment Station (NYAES) in 1999 and released in 2000. This variety originated from a three way cross

Sangmibyeo' is a japonica rice cultivar developed from a cross between Sambaegbyeo and Ou 316 by Sangju Substation of National Yeongnam Agricultural Experiment Station, R.D.A. in 1998. The cultivar is early maturing with heading date of August 7 in ordina

This study was carried out to investigate the relationship between resistance to brown planthopper (Bph) and some agronomic characters of rice using two japonica RIL_s (F₄) of Milyang 95/Milyang 64 and Milyang 165/Milyang 64. Culm len

Two rice varieties, 'Oochikara' with large grain and 'Hwayeongbyeo' and their progenies (F1 , F2 , B1 and B2 ) were tested to understand gene action of morphological traits of rice grain and their relationships. The evaluated traits were 1,000-grain weight, grain length, width, thickness, length-width ratio and chalkiness of brown rice. Correlation between grain weight and chalkiness was highly significant in the all progenies, and grain length were not associated with width and thickness in an F2 population. Scaling test and jonit scaling test revealed that inheritance of grain traits were fitted to additive-dominance model without epistasis. Additive effects for the traits were much greater than the dominance effects.

Diallel analysis was conducted with FI's derived from crossing in all combinations without reciprocals among six rice varieties; three tropical japonica and three temperate japonica varieties, with different traits associated with panicle and flag leaf. Epistasis was observed in the number of primary branches (PB) per panicle and of spikelets per panicle, while flag leaf length, flag leaf color, PB length and neck node thickness were explained with the additive-dominance model. The estimated genetic mode of flag leaf length and PB length was a positive complete dominance model with high heritability, and that of flag leaf color and neck node thickness was an incomplete dominance model. In particular, tropical japonica varieties with low-tillering and heavy-panicle appear to have higher number of dominant genes for flag leaf length and PB length than temperate japonica varieties.