‘Cheongpungheukchal’, a new blackish pigmented glutinous rice variety , was developed by the rice breeding teamof Chungbuk Agricultural Research and Extension Services in 2009. This cultivar was derived from a cross between‘Shindongjin’ as grain quality source and ‘Heugseonchal’ as black glutinous and aromatic source. The donor parent, ‘Sindongjin’,had been backcrossed one time with recurrent parent ‘Heugseonchal’ and selected by the pedigree breeding method until F6generation. As a result, a promising line, CBR12-9-3-1, was advanced and designated as the name of ‘CBR12 L8’ in 2006. Thecultivar headed on August 23 in the test of local adaptability and had 65 cm culm length. This cultivar had about 16 tillers perhill and 108 spikelets numbers per panicle. Ripended grain ratio was about 78.5% and 1,000 grain weight was 23.5 g in brownrice. It is moderately resistant to leaf blast but susceptible to other disease and insect pests. It has higher anthocyanin contentcompared to blackish pigmented check cultivar ‘Heugseonchal’. The yield performance of brown rice was 5.80 MT/ha in localadaptability test for three years. ‘Cheongpungheukchal’ is adaptable to middle plain and southern mid-mountainous area underordinary cropping system in Korea.
