Guangxi took the lead in cultivating fragrant red rice three-line CMS

Guangxi took the lead in cultivating fragrant red rice three-line CMS
Recently, Guangxi District Science and Technology Department organized relevant expert experts to conduct field technical appraisal on wild sterile male betel nut A cultivated by the state Huang Rice Research Institute. The expert group went through rigorous field investigations and indoor microscopic examinations, and listened to the breeder’s After the technical report and Q&A, it was identified that the betel nut red A rice three-line CMS standard was the first generation of scented red rice and three-line sterile line in China, which was highly innovative.

Betel nut red A has the advantages of stable agronomic traits, stable sterility, good flowering habits, superior rice quality, and high resistance level. It is a new type of hybrid rice developed by the Huang Rice Research Institute in 2002. At the first International Rice Conference, the rice has received the attention and praise of Chinese and foreign rice experts and scholars for its unique fragrance. According to tests conducted by the National Center for Quality Supervision, Inspection and Testing of Rice and Products, and Analytical Testing and Research Center of the Ministry of Agriculture, betel nut red jasmine rice contains a variety of medicinal ingredients that have a health-care effect on the human body. The contents of various health-care medicinal ingredients are higher than those of ordinary rice. In particular, the contents of vitamin E, flavone, beta-carotene, linolenic acid, and linoleic acid were all more than 1 times higher than those of ordinary rice, and dietary fiber was more than 50% higher. Betel nut red rice products are divided into A, B, C type. Type A is medicinal full-nutrition brown rice; Type B is semi-brown rice, suitable for frail elderly and surgical patients to eat porridge; middle-aged and elderly people, pregnant women, and young children are also beneficial to promote health; Type C is polished rice. The betel nut red rice is also a good raw material for making all kinds of rice pudding, and its varieties have applied for patent protection of the national variety rights. (Liu Qin)