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Rice genetic resources: history, conservation, investigative characterization and use in Japan.
Plant molecular biology - 1 Sept 1997
Nakagahra M, Okuno K, Vaughan D
Abstract excerpt
Rice has been grown in Japan for about 3000 years. Although both japonica and indica varieties have been grown in Japan, now japonica rices are grown. Japanese rice breeding has used an ecological breeding approach. While emphasis in rice breeding in the 1940's and 1950's focussed on yield in recent decades quality has been of major importance. Consumer preference and name recognition of high quality varieties,...
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