Abstract
Journal of Food and Agriculture is a half yearly publication by the Faculty of Agriculture and Plantation Management and Faculty of Livestock fisheries and Nutrition of the Wayamba University of Sri Lanka which provides a valuable forum for scientists endeavoring in research and development aspects in agriculture, food and nutrition. Full text articles available.
Highlights
Being the staple food with a per-capita consumption of 114 kg per year, rice plays a major role in nutritional status of the people of Sri Lanka (Rebeira et al, 2014)
The objective of this study was to determine the diversity of six Mudukiri Al accessions obtained from Plant Genetic Resources Centre (PGRC), Gannoruwa, Sri Lanka based on selected morphological traits and to select better performing Mudukiri Al accessions to be used in future breeding programmes
Analysis of variance (ANOVA) and related statistics for selected 12 agro-morphological traits of 6 rice accessions are presented in the Table 2
Summary
Being the staple food with a per-capita consumption of 114 kg per year, rice plays a major role in nutritional status of the people of Sri Lanka (Rebeira et al, 2014). Due to the remarkable rice production, Sri Lanka has reached the self-sufficiency in rice with an average rice production of 3.6 million metric tons per year (FAO, 2014). Bambaradeniya and Amerasinghe (2004) reported that unfavorable climatic and environmental conditions and reduction of land use could adversely affect the rice production in the near future. It is necessary to increase the rice production by enhancing its genetic diversity through breeding new varieties to face future challenges of climate change (Yoshida, 1983). Accessions of Sri Lankan Traditional Rice Variety "Mudukiri Al"
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