High-quality rice male sterile line successfully bred in Fujian

The provincial key science and technology project undertaken by the Fujian Academy of Agricultural Sciences (Tel: 0591-7884771) - the breeding of the rice male sterile line Jingfu 4A, passed the technical appraisal organized by the Fujian Provincial Department of Science and Technology on June 28, 2004.

Jingfu 4A has an early maturity period, stable plant and leaf morphology and male sterility traits, and excellent quality, especially outstanding milling quality and appearance quality, good flowering habits, a high stigma exsertion rate, and the combinations it produces show strong field performance advantages. Seven indicators - its milled rice rate, head rice rate, chalky grain rate, chalkiness degree, transparency, alkali spreading value and protein content - reach the first-grade standard for high-quality rice, while two indicators, brown rice rate and grain length, reach the second-grade standard for high-quality rice. According to experts, its chalky grain rate reaches the first-grade standard issued by the ministry, which is rare among the male sterile lines that have been appraised nationwide.