Rice cultivar M-208
AssigneeCalifornia Cooperative Rice Research Foundation, Inc.
InventorCarl W. Johnson
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Abstract
A rice cultivar designated M-208 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of rice cultivar M-208, to the plants of rice M-208 and to methods for producing a rice plant produced by crossing the cultivar M-208 with itself or another rice variety. The invention further relates to hybrid rice seeds and plants produced by crossing the cultivar M-208 with another rice cultivar.
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A seed of rice cultivar M-208, wherein a representative sample of seed of said cultivar was deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-9823.
A method of introducing a desired trait into rice cultivar M-208 wherein the method comprises:
- (a) crossing an M-208 plant, wherein a representative sample of seed was deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-9823, with a plant of another rice cultivar that comprises a desired trait to produce progeny plants wherein the desired trait is selected from the group consisting of male sterility, herbicide resistance, insect resistance, modified fatty acid metabolism, modified carbohydrate metabolism and resistance to bacterial disease, fungal disease or viral disease;
- (b) selecting one or more progeny plants that have the desired trait to produce selected progeny plants;
- (c) crossing the selected progeny plants with the M-208 plants to produce backcross progeny plants;
- (d) selecting for backcross progeny plants that have the desired trait and the physiological and morphological characteristics of rice cultivar M-208 to produce selected backcross progeny plants;
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- (e) repeating steps (c) and (d) three times to produce selected fourth or higher backcross progeny plants that comprise the desired trait and all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of rice cultivar M-208 as listed in Table 1.
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