Morphological & Molecular Characterization of Advanced Lines of Rice

Rice is ranked as the world's number one human food crop and accounts for more than half of the world's daily calorie intake. It is an economically important food crop that is domesticated after wheat and helps in poverty alleviation. In the present study, 20 advanced lines were evaluated for yield and yield attributing traits and resistance to bacterial blight. For quantitative trait analysis out of 53 traits, 13 agronomic traits, 29 morphological traits and 11 grain quality traits were studied.