Parental Selection in Rice Cultivar Improvement

The evaluation of rice (Oryza sativa L.) cultivars assists breeders in identifying useful trait relationships and in selecting parents as donors of specific traits. This study was conducted to compare long-grain rice cultivars using genotype × trait (GT) biplot analysis and determine potential donors of traits related to grain yield and quality. Seventeen cultivars in the 2005 and 2006 Uniform Regional Rice Nursery in Beaumont, Texas, USA were analyzed for 20 traits using GT biplot analysis. The GT biplots showed the diversity among cultivars with regards to yield-related traits. Cultivars recommended as donor parents were: Trenasse, Spring, Presidio, and Cocodrie for high grain yield and head rice rate; Trenasse and Presidio for semi-dwarfness; Banks for tall plant height; Wells for high flag leaf area, panicle weight, and number and mass of filled grains per panicle; Hidalgo for high tiller density; Francis for high number of spikelets per panicle; Spring and Trenasse for short flowering duration; Cheniere for more days to heading and maturity and Spring for less days; and Spring and Hidalgo for high grain weight. Breeders can use these cultivars with specific traits to increase grain yield and quality.     

结实期土壤水分和氮素营养对水稻产量与品质的交互影响

杂交籼稻汕优63和粳稻武育粳3号种植于土培池,于始穗期进行0N（0 g/m2）、NN（中氮,4.5 g/m2 ）和HN（高氮,9.0 g/m2）3种施氮量处理,于抽穗后7 d至成熟期设置了WW（保持浅水层）、MD（轻度落干,土壤水势保持-25 kPa）和SD（重度落干,土壤水势保持-50 kPa）3种土壤水分处理,研究了结实期土壤水分和氮素营养对水稻产量与品质的交互影响。在各施氮水平下,产量、糙米率、精米率和整精米率均以MD处理最高,垩白粒率和垩白度均以MD处理最低。在0N下,SD处理降低了产量、碾磨品质、外观品质和食味品质;在MN或HN下,SD处理的产量、碾磨品质、外观品质和食味品质与WW的差异不显著或显著优于WW。说明土壤水分和氮素营养对水稻产量和品质的影响存在着明显的互作效应,结实期土壤水势为-25 kPa、粒肥的施氮量为45 kg/hm2,稻米的品质较优、产量最高。     

Association mapping of grain quality and flowering time in elite japonica rice germplasm

Grain quality traits play an important role in the economic prosperity of commercial rice markets. The objective of our research was to identify candidate molecular markers associated with three grain quality and flowering traits in a collection of elite rice japonica inbred lines evaluated in five U.S. states. Candidate marker effects were associated with the traits mapped within regions reported from previous QTL analyses while several new allelic interactions were also detected. Common markers for each trait were observed across two or more locations, and two-way interactions unique to a single location were also found. Significant genotype × location interactions were detected while broad-sense heritability estimates were low for all characters. All but one selected marker effect was associated with a reduction in apparent amylose content. A reduction in heading date at three locations was observed with one marker as a main effect or as a component of two-way interactions that mapped ∼ 5 cM from the Hd3a flowering locus. The majority of selected effects for head rice were associated with modest to substantial increases in value. Marker loci and their interactions identified in this study highlighted targeted regions for future association studies and marker-assisted breeding efforts of grain quality traits.     

温度,光照对杂交中粳80优121稻米品质的影响

对８个不同播期的杂交中粳８０优１２１碾米品质（糙米率,精米率,整精米率）、外观品质（垩白度,透明度）、蒸煮品质（胶稠度,直链淀粉含量,糊化温度）、营养品质（蛋白质含量）与不同播期抽穗至成熟期日均测试和光照时数进行相关研究,结果表明,影响８０优１２１稻米品质的第１因素为日均温度,光照为第２因素。糙米率、精米率、整精米率均与日均温度相关极显著,相关系数分别为－０．８１２,－０．８１７,－０．８２９;垩     

直立与弯曲穗型水稻穗上不同部位籽粒碾磨品质的比较

以直立穗型和弯曲穗型水稻材料为对象,研究了穗上不同部位和不同粒位籽粒在碾米品质上的差异。弯曲穗型材料整穗籽粒的糙米率、精米率及整精米率以及粒重均高于直立穗型材料,其中整精米率差异达到显著水平。总体而言,在稻穗的同一部位,两穗型材料一次枝梗籽粒的糙米率、精米率、整精米率和粒重均高于二次枝梗的籽粒;一次枝梗上以第2 或第3粒位籽粒的糙米率、精米率和整精米率较高,第1 粒位籽粒的较低;穗上同一部位二次枝梗籽粒的碾米品质在两穗型材料间的差异大于一次枝梗,而穗型与其排序并无直接关系;两穗型材料籽粒粒重在穗上的分布与排序基本一致。因此,可以通过育种选择来改良直立穗型材料的碾磨品质。     

不同海拔高度对稻米品质性状的影响

对10个杂交稻组合在同一生态区5个不同海拔高度12个品质性状的变异特点进行了研究.结果表明,不同品质性状在不同海拔高度的变异存在很大差异,糙米率、精米率、粒长相对稳定,各组合平均变异系数仅为0.75%,0.60%和3.16%;而垩白度、垩白粒率波动较大,各组合平均变异系数高达92.28%和66.54%.通过聚类分析,可根据稻米品质性状在不同海拔高度的变异系数大小划分为3种类型,第1种是对气候条件变化最敏感的生态敏感型,如垩白度、垩白粒率,第2种是对气候条件变化反应迟钝的生态迟钝型,如糙米率、精米率、粒长,第3种是介于二者之间的中间型.随海拔升高,灌浆结实时间延长,整精米率增大,垩白度、垩白粒率变小,说明高海拔有利于改善稻米品质.     

受控环境下光周期对小麦生长发育、产量及营养品质的影响

为探讨受控生态生保系统(CELSS)中利用光周期调控提高植物能量利用效率的可能性,以红蓝LED(90%红+10%蓝)为光源,在开花前及开花后各设置12、16、20和24h四个光周期水平,形成16个处理,研究光周期对小麦生长发育、产量和营养品质的影响。结果表明,开花前光周期延长使小麦开花时间显著提前,特别是导致出苗到拔节和拔节到抽穗的天数显著减少。开花后光周期延长会缩短开花到成熟的时间,且开花前和开花后光周期对小麦生育期长度的影响相互独立。在开花前,短光周期有利于小麦营养器官的构建,增加株高、分蘖数、叶片数和营养器官干重,进而提高籽粒产量、收获指数和能效比。在开花后,长光周期提高了灌浆期叶片光合速率,促进籽粒中干物质积累,提高籽粒产量、收获指数和能效比。开花前短光周期的增产作用主要是因穗数和穗粒数增加,而开花后长光周期的增产作用主要是因粒重增加。在开花前后,延长光周期均导致籽粒淀粉含量增加和蛋白质含量减少。在开花前12h光照、开花后24h光照的处理下小麦产量和能量利用效率均最高,说明开花前短光周期结合开花后长光周期最有利于小麦高产和能量高效利用。     

Mapping QTLs for milling yield and grain characteristics in a tropical japonica long grain cross

Percent milling yield is an economically important trait of commercial rice because it largely determines the price that farmers receive for their crop. Analyzing 22 trait variables including milling yield, grain dimensions, chemistry and appearance, we identified 43 quantitative trait loci (QTLs) in a long grain japonica by long grain japonica cross. We report one QTL explaining 20% of the variation in brown rice recovery; two QTLs explaining 14% and 13% of the variation in milled rice recovery; and one QTL explaining 14% of the variation in head rice (HR) recovery. QTLs for the proportion of pre-broken brown rice kernels, seed density, amylose content, and kernel whiteness and chalkiness were found in the same region as the HR QTL. QTLs explaining up to 54% of the variation in grain shape measurements were identified and mapped to areas independent from those identified for milling yield. Analyses of grain appearance traits identified two QTLs for chalk in brown rice and one in head rice, and a QTL explaining up to 33% of the variance in green kernel area. Our results confirm previous findings on the multigenically complex nature of milling yield.     

杂草稻资源表型多样性分析及综合评价研究

杂草稻是生长形态与栽培稻相似,而稻米质量、落粒性和休眠性等性状不符合栽培稻生产需求的一类杂草。江苏省是我国杂草稻危害最严重的省份之一,大量研究主要集中在杂草稻的起源、性状和防控,杂草稻群体作为种质资源用于栽培稻品种改良尚无系统研究。丰富的遗传多样性和优良种质资源是栽培稻育种以及品种改良中最重要的物质基础,本研究收集21个江苏省不同地区的杂草稻群体、6个栽培稻品种和2个杂草稻对照群体为材料,通过在海南同质园种植,测定18个表型性状,分析其性状的多样性,并进行相关性分析、主成分分析、聚类分析和综合评价研究。结果表明：杂草稻的齐穗期和齐花期均明显早于栽培稻,杂草稻的实粒数和总粒数均较优于栽培稻,杂草稻资源群体表型性状变异系数为2.99%~196.29%,多样性指数为0.27~2.06,多样性指数最高的是结实率,其次为实粒数、剑叶长/宽和总粒数。相关性分析表明,18个表型性状之间大部分存在显著或极显著相关,始穗期和始花期与株高、穗长、剑叶长宽比、总粒数、实粒数、千粒重、分蘖数间均呈极显著正相关,千粒重与穗长、剑叶长宽比、分蘖数、始穗期、始花期呈极显著正相关。主成分分析将18个表型性状集中在累计贡献率为70.57%的6个主成份,其中正相关影响最大的性状是杂草稻的始穗期、始花期、齐穗期、齐花期、总粒数、实粒数等性状。聚类分析将23个杂草稻群体在欧式距离为5时分为5大类。18个指标综合评价D值>0.68的有3个群体,其中,来自南通如皋WJ-NJ1的D值最高（0.715）,其次是来自常州金坛WJ-CZ1（0.698）和盐城市辖区WJ-YC2（0.682）。本研究为杂草稻种质资源在未来的辅助育种以及栽培稻品种改良等方面提供了重要的理论依据。     

东北三省水稻品质性状比较研究

以2002-2007年辽宁、吉林和黑龙江三省水稻区域试验参试材料为试材,统一取样测定主要品质指标,分析品质性状的省份间差异、变化及其相互关系。结果表明,东北三省水稻碾磨品质普遍较高,其中吉林省参试品种糙米率和精米率最高,辽宁省参试品种整精米率最高;对于垩白粒率和垩白度,辽宁省与吉林省相差不大,但都显著高于黑龙江省;长宽比吉林辽宁黑龙江;蛋白质含量辽宁吉林黑龙江,直链淀粉含量则相反,但辽宁与吉林之间差异没有达到显著水平;胶稠度辽宁黑龙江吉林。近年来黑龙江和吉林水稻整精米率、黑龙江糙米率有所降低。粒长、长宽比与糙米率、精米率呈极显著负相关,垩白粒率、垩白度与精米率、整精米率和长宽比呈极显著负相关。因此,在水稻育种和栽培中,辽宁和吉林应主攻降低垩白粒率和垩白度,黑龙江和吉林应注意防止整精米率降低,黑龙江还要注重提高糙米率。     

高氮素籽粒生产效率类型籼稻品种的一些相关性状

 在群体水培条件下,以国内外不同年代育成的常规籼稻代表品种（2001年为88个、2002年为122个）为材料,对植株的干物质量、氮素含量、产量及其构成因素、生育期、株高、成穗率、穗部性状等进行了测定。采用组内最小平方和的动态聚类方法将供试品种的氮素籽粒生产效率（NUEg）分为 6种类型,研究不同NUEg类型品种生育期、株高、成穗率、穗部性状的基本特点。结果表明：1）高NUEg品种生育期（特别是播种至抽穗）较短,NUEg与全生育期、播种至抽穗天数呈显著负相关; 2)不同NUEg类型品种间株高无显著差异,株高与NUEg无密切关系;3）高NUEg类型品种分蘖成穗率高,分蘖成穗率与干物质运转及氮素运转关系密切;4）高NUEg类型品种穗长较短,着粒密度较大。     

籼型三系杂交水稻品质性状配合力与遗传力研究

以3个不育系和11个恢复系为材料,采用不完全双列杂交设计研究了水稻12个品质性状配合力和遗传力的表现规律。结果表明：（1）大部分性状特殊配合力方差极显著,即主要受基因非加性效应作用;少部分性状一般配合力和特殊配合力均显著或极显著,即受基因加性效应和非加性效应共同控制,且非加性效应占主导地位。（2）糙米率、粒长和垩白面积等受不育系影响较大,整精米率和糊化温度受恢复系影响较大,精米率、长／宽和垩白粒率等受父母本影响相当。（3）各性状狭义遗传力大小顺序为：蛋白质含量、整精米率、糊化温度、糙米率、垩白面积、粒长、胶稠度、直链淀粉含量、精米率。（4）亲本以星城A和明恢77较为理想,组合以星城A／TO974和金23A／R207较为理想。     

不同生育时期干旱胁迫对水稻产量与碾米品质的影响

以粳稻品种农大3号为材料,利用盆栽的方式人工控制土壤水分(水势),研究了不同生育时期干旱胁迫对水稻产量及碾米品质的影响。各时期干旱均导致产量下降,其敏感程度依次为：孕穗中期（抽穗前11~20 d）>孕穗后期（抽穗前1~10 d）>分蘖中期（移栽后11~20 d）>孕穗前期（抽穗前21~30 d）>分蘖初期（移栽后1~10 d）>分蘖后期（移栽后21~30 d）>乳熟期（抽穗后31~40 d）>抽穗开花期（抽穗后1~10 d）>灌浆期（抽穗后21~30 d）>蜡熟期（抽穗后41~50 d）。抽穗前干旱胁迫的敏感时期主要是孕穗中期、孕穗后期和分蘖中期。抽穗后,抽穗到乳熟期均较蜡熟期对干旱敏感,但对土壤水分变化较抽穗前迟钝。抽穗前干旱胁迫对糙米率和精米率影响最大的时期为孕穗中期,其次为孕穗后期。灌浆期到蜡熟期干旱胁迫,糙米率和精米率明显下降,抽穗后11~40 d干旱胁迫对整精米率的影响最大,其次为抽穗前1~20 d,其他时期干旱虽对整精米率有一定影响,但影响较小。     

环境因子对水稻品质形成的影响

通过对水稻不同生育时期的光温因子与产量构成因素及产量性状和品质性状的分析结果,发现在温光因子中,移栽期-始穗期日照、始穗期-成熟期积温对水稻的产量性状和品质性状的影响较大;在产量性状中,每穴穗数和结实率是受环境影响较大的性状;在品质性状中,蛋白质含量、垩白粒率、长宽比是受环境影响较大的性状。同时,灌浆结实期高温导致水稻结实率明显下降、千粒重略有提高;蛋白质含量、垩白粒率、长宽比受环境影响最大。     

Effects of Lodging at Different Filling Stages on Rice Yield and Grain Quality

The effects of lodging of rice plants from 20 d after full heading to maturity on yield and grain quality were investigated with a hybrid rice combination Liangyoupeijiu and a japonica rice cultivar CY-6.The results showed that,except for brown rice rate,almost all parameters for yield and grain quality including ratio of grain length to grain width,gelatinization temperature and gel consistency,were significantly influenced by lodging and thus deteriorated.Regression analysis suggested that,lodging one day earlier at the grain-filling stage could cause 2.66% to 2.71% of yield loss,1.8 to 2.6 percentage points decrease of seed-setting rate,0.26 to 0.32 g reduction of 1000-grain weight,0.097 to 0.155 percentage point decline of milled rice rate,as well as 0.13 to 0.27 percentage point increase of chalky grain rate,and 0.021 to 0.024 percentage point rise of protein content,and subsequently lower the eating quality.     

Studies on Agronomic Traits of African Rice (Oryza glaberrima Steud.): IV. Changes in growth,dry matter productivity and yielding ability related to domestication from wild to cultivated form

Abstract

The changes in growth, dry matter productivity and yielding ability in the course of domestication from O. breviligulata to African rice (O. glaberrima) were examined. Between the two rice species, differences were hardly detected in plant height, culm length and final leaf number, although O. breviligulata had a wider variation of these characteristics as compared with African rice. The shorter strains tended to produce more tillers at the maximum tiller number stage, and the high tillering capacity was correlated with a low percentage of productive tillers, although the strains having a small number of grains per head showed a high percentage of productive tillers, in both species. No significant difference was detected between the two species in straw weight at maturity, and the differences in straw weight among strains were attributed to the differences in days required from transplanting to heading and to plant height. No significant difference between the two species was observed in top and total weights. The grain number per head was conversely related with panicle number in both species. Although the percentage of ripened grain tended to be slightly lower in O. breviligulata than in African rice, this may be attributed partly to the difference in grain number per hill. Single grain weight in O. breviligulata was nearly equal to that in African rice. These results suggest that agronomic traits such as growth, dry matter productivity and yielding ability have been changed only slightly in the course of domestication from O. breviligulata to African rice.     

Rapid prediction of head rice yield and grain shape for genome-wide association study in indica rice

Rice milling and appearance qualities are the main determinants of market price of the milled rice, so great breeding efforts have been directed to improve the milling and appearance quality. The success of breeding efforts depends on the accurate and rapid phenotyping of the quality traits in early generations. This study was conducted to first validate the effectiveness of the PaddyCheck to measure head rice yield (HRY) and paddy grain length of 40 indica rice cultivars. The results indicated that the PaddyCheck data had positively correlated with the lab methods of HRY (r = 0.81**) and grain length (r = 0.97**). An association panel including 281 indica rice accessions was phenotyped with the PaddyCheck and the data were used for genome-wide association study (GWAS) to identify quantitative trait locus (QTL) for milling and appearance quality. A total of nine QTLs were identified, among which the major genes GS3 and qSW5 were identified for grain length and width, respectively. Furthermore, a novel QTL on short arm of chromosome 6 was identified for HRY. Our study indicated that PaddyCheck measurement was accurate and effective, and could be applied in rice breeding for improvement of grain shape and milling quality. The nine QTLs identified in indica rice could be used in marker assisted selection in rice breeding programs.     

水稻长穗大粒RIL群体主要品质性状的遗传分析

为探讨水稻长穗大粒RILs群体主要品质性状的遗传规律,以自育的一个水稻长穗大粒品系FJCD与籼型三系恢复系IR24配制杂交组合,单粒传法构建含有178个株系的RILs群体(F11)为材料,分别在福州和沙县2个不同生态条件下种植,采用植物数量性状的主基因+多基因混合遗传模型及其相应的统计方法,研究水稻主要品质性状的遗传特征。结果表明:除了精米率呈多基因遗传外,其他9个品质性状的最适遗传模型符合主基因+多基因混合遗传。精米率、米粒长、米粒宽、米粒长宽比、透明度、碱消值和直链淀粉含量在不同环境中表现相似的遗传模型;整精米率、垩白度和垩白粒率表现不同的遗传模型。由主基因遗传率为主的有整精米率、米粒长、垩白粒率、垩白度、透明度、碱消值和直链淀粉含量;由多基因遗传率为主的有米粒宽和米粒长宽比。环境因素对碱消值的影响最大。在不同生态条件下稻米主要品质性状间的相关性有82.22%的比率表现较为一致,不因环境的变化而改变其相关性。因此,在稻米品质选择与鉴定时需对整精米率、垩白度和垩白粒率在多个特定环境中进行,才能提高育种效率;对由主基因和多基因遗传率为主的性状需分别采用不同选择方法和育种策略。     

盐粳228群体特征及对氮的响应

2010年对盐粳228进行氮肥试验,研究该品种高产群体特征及对氮的响应。结果表明:该品种抽穗后干物质积累占籽粒产量的71%~81%,茎叶的表观转运率少,容易获得高产。该品种抽穗期适宜的叶面积指数(LAI)为7.0~7.5,叶色呈"三黑三黄"节奏变化,后期生长速率(CGR)高,收获指数(HI)介于0.8~1.1之间。氮肥的适量施用(330kgN.hm-2)不仅可以保证叶色"三黑三黄"节奏变化,建立抽穗期适宜LAI的群体,还可以保持高产株型特征,提高抽穗后期的LAI、叶面积维持期、CGR和HI,最终实现高产。     

播期和地点对不同生态类型粳稻稻米品质性状的影响

 以不同生态类型的5个粳稻品种为材料,在江苏省选择5个不同纬度地点,通过分期播种试验研究稻米品质性状的差异,探讨不同地点和不同播期对稻米加工、外观、蒸煮食味和营养品质的影响。结果表明,13个品质性状在地点、播期及品种间的差异均达到了极显著水平,多数性状品种间变异最大,地点次之,播期影响最小。不同品质性状在不同纬度的变化趋势不同,稻米加工品质随纬度的升高呈改善趋势,粒长、粒宽和长宽比在不同纬度间的变化较小,直链淀粉含量、糊化温度、胶稠度和食味值呈北高南低的趋势,垩白率、垩白度和蛋白质含量则呈现南高北低的趋势,食味品质随纬度的升高有提高趋势。随播期的推迟,加工品质、直链淀粉含量、糊化温度、蛋白质含量均有提高的趋势,粒长和长宽比增加,粒宽减小,胶稠度降低,垩白率和垩白度在不同播期之间存在显著差异,但变幅不大,过早或过迟播种食味值均有降低趋势。不同性状对地点和播期的反应不同,糙米率、粒宽、粒长、长宽比和精米率受影响较小,而垩白率和垩白度受影响较大,整精米率、糊化温度、蛋白质含量、直链淀粉含量、胶稠度和食味值居两者之间。不同品种不同品质性状在地点和播期间的稳定性不同,南粳46的品质性状综合表现最好,但受地点和播期的影响较大。