‘Jungdream’ is an early maturing, high-quality rice cultivar developed in 2017 by the crop breeding team at Crop Research Division, GARES, Hwaseong, Korea. ‘Jungdream’ was first developed in 2008 from crossing a medium-late maturity cultivar ‘Chilbo’ and an early maturity cultivar ‘Ungwang’. The heading date of this cultivar is July 28^th in the Gyeonggido Province. Its culm length is 63 cm, and it has 19 panicles per hill and 82 spikelets per panicle. It is a medium-small grain brown rice cultivar with a 1000-grain weight of 20.6 g. Its cold tolerance is lower than that of ‘Hwaseong’, which is the standard cultivar in the central region, as is its degree of lodging tolerance. ‘Jungdream’ is resistant to rice blast and stripe virus diseases but is susceptible to bacterial leaf blight and other viral diseases and pests. The appearance of milled ‘Jungdream’ rice is clear, and its amylose content is 16.5%, which is lower than that of ‘Hwaseong’. The palatability of cooked ‘Jungdream’ rice is better than that of ‘Chucheong’, which is the main cultivated crop in Gyeonggido. Its milling ratio is 75.0%, which is lower than that of ‘Hwaseong’. The yield of milled ‘Jungdream’ rice was 5.42 MT/ha in the local adaptability tests during standard cultivation in four regions from 2015 to 2017. ‘Jungdream’ is highly adaptable to the environmental conditions in the Gyeonggido Province (Registration No. 8236).

‘Ondami’, a japonica rice cultivar developed from a cross between Hitomebore having a high grain quality and Sangju27 adaptable to southern mid-mountainous area was developed by the rice breeding team of Sangju Substation, NICS, RDA in 2013. The heading date of ‘Ondami’ is july 27 which is same with ‘Odae’ in Southern mid-mountainous area, mid mountainous, southern alpine area and north-east coastal area of South Korea. ‘Ondami’ has 70cm culm length, 19cm panicle length which is 2cm shorter than those of ‘Odae’ and 78 spikelets per panicle. In reaction to biotic and abiotic stresses, it shows strong resistance to blast, but is susceptible to bacterial blight, virus diseases, and insect pests. The milled rice of ‘Ondami’ exhibits translucent and, relatively clear non-glutinous endosperm, and medium short grain shape. This variety has a higher head rice milling recovery ratio(73.1%) and lower amylose content(18.8%) than that of ‘Odae’. The milled rice yield performance of this variety was about 5.29 MT/ha in ordinary cultivation of local adaptability test for three years. ‘Ondami’ could be adaptable to Southern mid-mountainous area, mid mountainous, southern alpine area and north-east coastal area of South Korea.

‘Chindeul’, a new japonica rice cultivar developed from a cross between HR22538-GHB-36-4 having brown planthopper (BPH) resistance and Iksan471 having a good eating-quality and high yield, was developed by the rice breeding team of Department of Rice and Winter Cereal Crop, NICS, RDA in 2012. This variety has about 124 days growth duration from transplanting to harvesting in west-southern coast, Honam and Youngnam plain of Korea. It has 83 cm culm length and tolerance to lodging. In reaction to biotic and abiotic stresses, it shows resistance to bacterial blight pathogen races from K1 to K3, stripe virus and brown planthopper. The milled rice of ‘Chindeul’ exhibits translucent, relatively clear non-glutinous endosperm and medium short grain. It has lower protein content of 5.9% and good palatability of cooked rice compared with Nampyeongbyeo. The milled rice yield performance of this variety is about 5.61 MT/ha in local adaptability test for three years. ‘Chindeul’ would be useful genetic resources for multi-resistance breeding program against disease and insect.

‘Sanhomi’, a new japonica rice cultivar developed from a cross between Sangmibyeo and F₁ plant derived from the cross between Sangju24 and Hwayeongbyeo having bacterial blight and rice stripe virus resistance was developed by the rice breeding team of Sangju Substation, NICS, RDA in 2012. This variety has about 114 days of growth duration from transplanting to harvesting in southern mid-mountainous area of South Korea. It has 70 cm culm length and tolerance to lodging. In reaction to biotic and abiotic stresses, it shows multiple resistance to blast, bacterial blight and rice stripe virus. The milled rice of ‘Sanhomi’ exhibits translucent and, relatively clear non-glutinous endosperm, and medium short grain. This variety has a higher milled rice recovery (67.3%), better palatability of cooked rice and similar amylose content (19.9%) compared with Odaebyeo. The milled rice yield performance of this variety was about 5.60 MT/ha in local adaptability test for three years. ‘Sanhomi’ would be adaptable to southern mid-mountainous of South Korea.