Rice Breeding Australia 2025 Annual Report
The Rice Breeding Australia 2025 Annual Report highlights a year of significant progress in transforming Australia’s rice breeding program.
RICE
Quality Rice for north Asia
32 pages
Published: 1 May 2001
Author(s): Blakeney, A.B.
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This report summarises studies that aimed to define high quality for North Asian rice markets and a breeding program to produce new cultivars to satisfy these markets. The project culminated in the release of ‘Opus’ a new high yielding rice cultivar with grain quality approaching that of Koshihikari, the premium Japanese variety.
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