Introduction to the Characteristics and Traits of the Fuyou No. 6 Rice Variety
Registration Status: Gui Sheng Dao No. 2005011
Characteristics and Traits: When grown as mid-season rice in Sichuan, the whole growth period is 151.6 days, 1-2 days shorter than Shanyou 63; when grown as mid-season rice in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, about 135 days; and when grown as early rice in Guangxi, about 128 days. Plant height is 111.6 cm, panicle length is 24.7 cm, effective panicles are 163,000 per mu, average grains per panicle are 170.1, the largest single panicle can reach 400 grains, seed-setting rate is 85.98%, and 1000-grain weight is 28.1 g. Processing and cooking quality are good, and appearance quality is above average. In 2003, tested by the Rice Testing Center of the Ministry of Agriculture, 8 indicators reached the Ministry-issued second-grade high-quality rice standard. Field performance showed moderate resistance to rice blast and resistance to bacterial leaf blight. In 2003, it participated in the mid-late high-yield group regional trial in Sichuan Province, with an average yield of 565.70 kg per mu, an increase of 8.79% over the control Shanyou 63, ranking first; it participated in the national lower Yangtze mid-season indica late-maturing high-quality B group regional trial, with an average yield of 525.34 kg per mu, an increase of 7.76% over the control Shanyou 63, ranking second; in 2004, in a trial production planting as early rice in Guangxi, the yield reached 832.5 kg per mu, ranking first among the tested varieties; it participated in the national upper Yangtze regional trial, with an average yield of 632.36 kg per mu, an increase of 10.6% over the control; and it participated in the Sichuan Province production trial with an average yield of 643 kg per mu, an increase of 13.6% over the control Shanyou 63.
Cultivation Points: In production, timely sowing is required, vigorous multi-tiller seedlings should be cultivated, the seeding rate is 1.5 kg per mu, reasonable close planting should be used with 15,000-20,000 hills per mu, formula fertilization should be applied with heavy basal fertilizer and early topdressing, and disease and insect control should be carried out in a timely manner to strive for higher yields.