Rice Breeding Australia Annual results: September 2023 to August 2024
Rice Breeding Australia Ltd (RBA) has continued to rapidly evolve the previous rice breeding program, and July 2024 marks the end of a very successful...
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Published: 6 Apr 2010
Author(s): Subasinghe, Ranjith
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Straighthead or is a physiological disorder in rice resulting in distortion and missing grains on the panicle. It has been estimated that straighthead costs the rice industry over $1 million per year. Crop losses range from 10 – 30% in medium grain and as high as 90% in short and long grain rice. Straighthead occurs in almost all rice growing areas in NSW on a range of soil types.
This RIRDC project contributed to the development of a technique to evaluate new rice genotypes for straighthead tolerance under glasshouse conditions. This will substantially benefit the rice breeding program in pursuing high yielding rice varieties tolerant to straighthead.