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Development of Intraspecific Hybrid of (IURON 14 X Dular), (IURON 14 X
Pokkali), (MR263 X Dular) and (MR263 X Pokkali) Rice Varieties
Noor Rashidah Binti Md Rashid
Supervisor: Dr. Rohayu binti Ma’arup
Bachelor of Science Agrotechnology (Crop Science)
School of Food Science and Technology
Climate change and extreme condition play a significant role for rice plantation. Rice
variety with drought and salinity tolerance are more preferable in improving the food
security for countries like Malaysia. Thus, combination rice variety with these abiotic
tolerance traits into high yield performance rice through conventional breeding would
give potential lines that tolerance to both stress without compromise the yield
production. In this study, rice with high yield performance MR263 (MARDI variety) and
IURON 14 (International upland rice observational nursery) were used as female
parents while drought tolerant variety Dular and salinity tolerant variety Pokkali were
used as male parents to generate F1 hybrid generation in the field. The success rate
of paddy crosses between rice varieties were measure based on the number grain
produced. The Simple Sequence Repeat (SSR) markers is used for hybrid detection
and selection for future research program.
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