IET-25477 Zinco Rice

Variety identified: R-RHZ-LI-23 (IET 25477) - Zinco Rice- MS developed by IGKV and identified by VIC 2018 for West Bengal, Chattisgarh and Odisha.

Common study across the partners: A set of 36 donors for high zinc from IIRR, NRRI, IARI, IGKV and TNAU were pooled and grown at five locations during kharif 2017. The donors were characterized for their agro-morphological characters, iron and zinc in brown and polished rice across locations and stable donors were identified.

Entries under evaluation: ~20 biofortified entries are being nominated and evaluated in under AICRP-Rice (The project has been started from 2014. Thus, some of the base material was from DBT, HarvestPlus and from other projects. However being evaluated, improved and multiplied in this project.