Collection and evaluation of Kalanamak rice germplasm from traditional Kalanamak Agromorphological characters of eastern Uttar Pradesh

Abstract

A field experiment was conducted at Crop Research Station, Masodha, Faizabad to agro morphologically characterize the ninety five aromatic short grain rices Kalanamak of diverse origin, collected from different districts of eastern Uttar Pradesh viz: Maharajganj, Sidharth Nager, during kharif 2017 and 2018. The 40 DUS characters are, (1) Basal leaf sheath colour (2) Leaf pubescence of Blade surface (3) Leaf auricles (4) Leaf anthocyanin colouration of auricles (5) Ligule shape (6) Ligule colour (7) Days to 50% flowering (8) Flag leaf attitude of blade early obs (9) Spikelet density of pubescence of lemma (10) Lemma anthocyanin colouration of area below apex (11) Spikelet color of stigma (12) Stem length (13) Stem anthocyanin colouration of nodes (14) Panicle Length (15) Flag leaf attitude of blade late obs (16) Panicle curvature of main axis (17) Spikelet colour of tip of lemma (18) Panicle awns (19) Panicle color of awns late obs (20) Panicle distribution of awns (21) Panicle attitude of branches (22) Panicle exertion (23) Sterile lemma colour (24) Decorticated grain length (25) Decorticated grain width (26) Decorticated grain shape (27) Decorticated grain color (28) Endosperm presence of amylose (29) Decorticated grain aroma (30) Vegetaive vigour (31) Tillering ability (32) Productive tillers/Plant (33) Plant Height (34) Panicle threshability (35) Phenotypic acceptability (36) Spikelet number/plant (37) Fertile Grains/ Plant (38) Sterile grains /Plant (39) Plot Yield in gms (40) 100 Grain weight. Yield kg/ha ranged from 1100 to 3250 kg/ha. The promising germplasm grain yield kg/ha was Kalanamak Nichlol (A) is 3250 kg/ha followed by Kalanamak Birdpur (C) 3160 kg/ha, Kalanamak Aligarh 3110 kg/ha, Kalanamak Kapilvastu 3090 kg/ha. Specialty rice, in general, and aromatic rice in particular, possess enormous market potential for enhancing farm profits. However, systematic characterization of the diversity present in this natural wealth is a major pre requisite for using it in the breeding programs. This study reports qualitative phenotypic trait based characterization of 95 short grain aromatic Kalanamak rice genotypes, collected from different areas of the state of U.P., India.