Morpho-molecular and nutritional profiling for yield improvement and value addition of indigenous aromatic Joha rice of Assam.

ABSTRACT: Short-grain aromatic Joha rice of Assam is a unique class of specialty rice having tremendous potential in domestic and international markets. The poor yielding ability of Assam's Joha rice demands its systematic characterization for an effective breeding program. This study investigates the morphological, molecular and biochemical profiles of twenty popular Joha (aromatic) rice cultivars indigenous to Assam. Distinctiveness, Uniformity and Stability (DUS) characterization of the cultivars revealed polymorphism in thirty-seven traits, establishing distinctiveness for their utilization in breeding programs. Unweighted Neighbor Joining (UNJ) clustering based on usual Euclidean distances for the polymorphic morphological markers grouped the cultivars into three clusters with eight, eleven, an

SUBMITTER: Bordoloi D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10861566 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature