Agronomic evaluation of nine advanced rice lines (Oriza sativa L.) and two commercial varieties under fl ood irrigation conditions, Sébaco, Matagalpa

Abstract

The study of nine advanced genotypes of rice and two commercial varieties was conducted at the experimental center of rice of ANAR at the Santa Rita Farm located in Sebaco, Matagalpa with the aim of assessing genotypes with higher potential yield and excellent agronomic and industrial characteristics. The experimental plots were stablished on July 10, 2014 and harvested since November 17th to November 19th of 2014. A BCA design was used with tree replications. The ANDEVA and Tukey 5% mean comparison test was applied using SAS software 9.1. The rice plants of line 246 and the variety ANAR 97 presented certain index of felt down and the lines 18 and 20 presented a moderate length of excursion facilitating the grain of rice plants. The remainder or rice lines did not present any felt down and showed a good length excersion. From the nine studied lines, six presented the highest productivity, also higher than ANAR 97 and ANAR 470 where the yield of paddy rice found was between 6121 kg/ha and 6818 kg/ha. These six lines can be tested in the future regional experiments. The line 248, presented the highest yield of white rice, the higher percentage of complete rice grain and the better relationship between good grain rice and broken grain rice.