Koshihikari: a premium short-grain rice cultivar - its expansion and breeding in Japan.

ABSTRACT: Koshihikari, a Japanese short-grain rice cultivar, was developed in 1956, more than 60 years ago. Despite its age, it has been the most widely grown cultivar in Japan for more than 35 years, making it the most important rice for the Japanese people. In its early days, there was no reason to predict that Koshihikari would become so widely disseminated. However, since the end of the post-World War II food shortage in the 1960s, Japanese preferences changed from high productivity to good eating quality. This triggered wide expansion of Koshihikari cultivation due to the cultivar's excellent taste and texture. With increasing cultivation of Koshihikari in Japan, several good agronomic characteristics beyond its high eating quality became apparent, such as its good adaptation to different envir

SUBMITTER: Kobayashi A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5890008 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature