bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/500637; this version posted December 18, 2018. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY 4.0 International license. 1 Novel, economically important semi-dwarf and early mutants: Selection and 2 development from Improved White Ponni Rice (Oryza sativa L.) 3 4 S. Ramchander 1, Andrew Peter Leon2, Jesima Khan Yasin 3, KK. Vinod4 and M. Arumugam 5 Pillai 2* 6 7 1 Visiting Scientist (SERB –National Post-Doctoral Fellow), 8 IRRI-South Asia Hub, ICRISAT, 9 Patancheru, Hyderabad, India 10 11 2Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, 12 Agricultural College and Research Institute, Killikulam 13 Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, India 14 15 3 Scientist, Division of Genomic Resources, 16 ICAR-National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, 17 and Faculty, ICAR-IASRI, New Delhi, India 18 19 4Principal Scientist 20 Rice Breeding and genetics research Centre, 21 Aduthurai 612 101Tamil Nadu, India 22 *Corresponding author E-mail:
[email protected] 23 1 bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/500637; this version posted December 18, 2018. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY 4.0 International license. 24 Abstract 25 Rice variety, Improved White Ponni is a medium duration crop, but highly susceptible to 26 lodging impacting maximum yield losses.