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Inheritance of Scent in American Long Grain Rice¹

Scented or aromatic rice (Oryza sativa L.) is highly valued in many areas of the world, but the development of high yielding scented cultivars has been limited by a lack of information on the inheritance of scent. Reciprocal crosses were made between the scented cultivar ‘Della’ and the nonscented cultivar ‘Dawn’ to study the inheritanceof scent in rice. Leaf tissue and seed samples from plants of the parental cultivars and of F₁ and F₂ progeny were placed in 0.3 mol L^–1 KOH solution and rated for strength of aroma. The results indicated that the F₁ plants were nonscented and the F₂ populations segregated in a 3:1( nonscented:scented)r atio. Individual seeds from F₁ plants were chewed and rated as scented or nonscented and the results showed that, due to xenia, the seeds from the heterozygous F₁ plants also segregated in a 31 (nonscented:scented) ratio. Of 992 F₂ seeds individually rated for scent, 748 were nonscented and 244 were scented. Chewing and rating individual F₃ seeds of F₂ plants confirmed the monogenic recessive inheritance of the scent character. It was found that scent could be detected in half of a single seed by chewing the distal portion while saving the portion of the seed with the embryo. Normal germination, with approximately 80% plant survival in the field, was observed when the embryo portions were planted. The scent character may be transferred into improved cultivars by several methods using the demonstrated ability to identify scented genotypes by chewing individual seeds.

Key Words: Aroma • Flavor • Grain quality • Oryza sativa L.

² Former research associate (now instructor, Dep. of Plant Pathology and Crop Physiology, Louisiana State Univ.) and associate professor, Dep. of Agronomy, Louisiana Agric. Exp. Stn., Baton Rouge, LA 70803.

Received for publication August 5, 1985.