HUBEI AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES ›› 2025, Vol. 64 ›› Issue (10): 1-9.doi: 10.14088/j.cnki.issn0439-8114.2025.10.001

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Comprehensive evaluation of 126 rice germplasm resources under natural high temperature conditions

WANG Ting-bao1, LIU Gang2, QIU Dong-feng2, ZHU Ye-bao3, ZHANG Zai-jun2, HE Yong1, LIU Zhi-en1, ZHANG Shi-qian1, LIU Yao-wei1, TIAN Zhi-hong1   

  1. 1. College of Life Science, Yangtze University, Jingzhou 434025, Hubei, China;
    2. Food Crop Institute, Hubei Academy of Agricultural Sciences/Hubei Key Laboratory of Food Crop Germplasm and Genetic Improvement, Wuhan 430064, China;
    3. Rice Research Institute, Fujian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Fuzhou 350018, China
  • Received:2025-03-28 Online:2025-10-25 Published:2025-11-14

Abstract: The heat tolerance evaluation and phenotypic traits analysis of 126 rice (Oryza sativa L.) germplasm resources were carried out by using the natural high-temperature conditions in Jingzhou City, Hubei Province and Sanming City, Fujian Province in 2022. The results demonstrated that grain width exhibited a highly significant positive correlation with seed-setting rate and 1 000-grain weight under natural high-temperature, indicating that grain width mgiht play an important role in heat tolerance. The coefficients of variation of spike number, grain number per spike, length-width ratio and seed setting rate were large, and the genetic diversity was rich, which had great potential for utilization. A total of 40 heat-resistant germplasms, 44 suspected susceptible germplasms and 42 heat-sensitive germplasms were identified by heat resistance evaluation. Cluster analysis further divided the materials into four groups, and the third group was outstanding in grain width, seed setting rate and 1 000-grain weight. The selected heat-resistant germplasm resources could be used to improve existing varieties or as donor materials for mining new heat-resistant genes, which provided an important material basis and theoretical basis for rice heat-resistant breeding.

Key words: rice (Oryza sativa L.), heat tolerance, germplasm resources, natural high temperature, comprehensive evaluation

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