Rice seed production

A method of rice seed production comprising:

• a. growing a plurality of designated female parent rice plants wherein said designated female parent rice plants receive pollen during a pollination window, wherein said pollination window includes a period wherein pollen is not shed from an undesirable pollen source and a period wherein pollen is shed from said undesirable pollen source;
• b. intentionally pollinating said plurality of designated female parent rice plants, on one or more occasions, with designated male rice plant pollen when said undesirable pollen source is not releasing viable pollen;
• c. growing the designated female parent rice plants to maturity;
• and
• d. harvesting the seed produced by said designated female parent rice plants;
• wherein the designated female parent plants are genetically different from the designated male pollen parent plant.

A method of rice seed production, said method comprising the intentional application of designated male rice pollen to a designated female parent rice plant when the female components of said designated female parent rice plant are ready to receive pollen but the male components of said designated female parent rice plant are not releasing pollen;

• wherein the designated male rice pollen is from a rice plant that is genetically different from the designated female parent rice plant;
• and wherein the method includes the reduction or elimination of the need of one or both of the following conditions:
• a. physical and/or temporal isolation of said designated female parent rice plant from undesirable pollen of the same species;
• and
• b. male pollinator plants to be grown in proximity of said designated female parent rice plant.