We bred a new green-kerneled glutinous rice variety that can be cultivated in the whole area of Korea, because only one native green-kerneled glutinous rice cultivar, “aengdongchalbyeo” has been cultivated in the southern coastal area due to its late heading. The seeds of “aengdongchalbyeo”were irradiated with 200 Gy of gamma ray in 1995. A promising mutant variety, “ogwonchalbyeo”(“onnong 17” was selected through line selection and regional yield trials. In particular, the new variety revealed at the earlier mid of August compared to that of “aengdongchalbyeo” the early of September, and it was considerably tolerant to a field lodging due to its shortened culm length. Also, “ogwonchalbyeo”had a higher ripened grain ratio and 1,000 grain weight compared to the original variety. The brown grain yield of the new variety was about 5.40 MT/ha, which was 11.3% higher than that of the original variety, in the regional yield trials at 3 different fields during 2000∼2001. The brown and milled grains of the new rice variety contained 20 to 65% higher amount of total amino acids, respectively than that of the original and two checks. For chlorophyll -a, -b and total chlorophyll, the new variety showed nearly two-fold higher than the checks, and for the carotenoid, it had 5.3 –7.6 times higher amount. These results showed that the new variety can be cultivated as a special green-kerneled glutinous rice with high functional compounds.

This study was carried to examine the changes in kernel-greenness under different storage conditions in green-kerneled rices, Saedongchalbyeo (Korea) and Hexi41 (China). Rough and brown-rice grains were stored just after harvest under different storage conditions; low (15℃) and room temperature storage, and light and dark storage at 21℃, 24℃, and 27℃. Kernel- greenness was measured by using colorimeter. When the grains were stored in brown rice at room temperature under light condition after harvest, kernel greenness was maintained up to 4 months and gradually faded away until 8 months. However, kernel greenness was maintained up to 10 months storage after harvest at room temperature under dark condition, and up to more than 11 months at low temperature under dark. Rough-rice grains kept the greenness up to more than 11 months regardless of the light and temperature. The higher the storage temperature, the less kernel-greenness when stored in brown rice. Light was the critical factor for degradation of kernel-greenness. For long-term storage of green-kerneled rices, rough-rice storage, or brown-rice storage under low-temperature and dark condition seemed to be desirable for the maintenance of kernel-greenness.

This study was conducted to characterize and to elucidate the inheritance mode of green-kerneled rices which were selected in rice germplasms collected in China. Three green-kerneled varieties (Hexi 41, Beijingluimi-1, and Jilinluimi-1), three regular whi