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