Editorial
MUSHKBUDJI-Aromatic Land Race of Kashmir
Gazala H Khan1, Asif B Shikari2, Shabir H Wani1*, NR Sofi3 and GA Parray3 | |
1Division of Genetics and Plant Breeding, SKUAST-K, Shalimar, Srinagar-190025, Jammu and Kashmir, India | |
2Centre for Plant Biotechnology SKUAST-K, Shalimar, Srinagar-190025, Jammu and Kashmir, India | |
3Division of Genetics and Plant Breeding, SKUAST-K, MRCFC, Khudvani Anantnag-192101, Jammu and Kashmir, India | |
Corresponding Author : | Shabir Wani H Division of Genetics and Plant Breeding, SKUAST-K, Srinagar-190025 Jammu and Kashmir, India Tel: +91-9419035566 E-mail: shabirhussainwani@gmail.com |
Received: January 28, 2016; Accepted: February 01, 2016; Published: February 03, 2016 | |
Citation: Khan GH, Shikari AB, Wani SH, Sofi NR, Parray GA (2016) MUSHKBUDJIAromatic Land Race of Kashmir. J Rice Res 4:e126. doi:10.4172/2375- 4338.1000e126 | |
Copyright: © 2016 Khan GH, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
Abstract
More than 100 landraces have been documented from Kashmir valley, however, majority of them stand replaced from farmer’s field by the high yielding varieties, and have been confined to some specific pockets of the valley. The preference for high yielding varieties has led to genetic erosion and loss of these valuable landraces which once were cultivated for several traits like taste, aroma, other unique quality features and medicinal use. The reasons attributed to loss of heritage rice’s of Kashmir include their low yield potential and susceptibility to biotic and abiotic stresses particularly to paddy blast.