Breeding and Application of Yueyou 360,a New Late-Cropping Indica Hybrid Rice Combination with Fine Grain Quality

Yueyou 360, Yue 4 A (a CMS line with javanica cytoplasms)/Yuehui 360 (a restorer line with fine grain quality), is a newly developed late-cropping indica hybrid rice combination with fine grain quality by the Agricultural Research Institute of Yueyang City, Hunan Province. It shows such characteristics as fine grain quality, high yield, suitable maturity and wide adaptability. During 2003—2006, it was successively certified and released to commercial production by the provincial crop variety appraisal committees of Hunan, Guangxi and Jiangxi. In 2006, it was evaluated as a second class fine quality variety of late-cropping indica rice in the sixth Fine Quality Rice Appraisal Meeting of Hunan Province.