Caribe 7: Cuban rice variety nominated in 1982 , preceding the IR8 / CEB crossing ( Peru ), with an agricultural yield that exceeds 4.2 t / ha in the wet season and 7.0 t / ha in the dry season.
Summary
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- 1 General characters
- 2 Behavior towards the main pests
- 3 Most outstanding descriptive characters
- 1 Plant characteristics
- 2 Industrial characteristics
- 4 Internal links
- 5 External links
- 6 Source:
General characters
- Potential agricultural yield: dry period: 7.0 t / ha. Wet season: 4.2 t / ha.
- Life cycle (days): Photoperiodic
- % Whole White Grain: 56.0
Behavior towards the main pests
- Tagosodes orizicolusMuir: Intermediate
- White Sheet: Intermediate
- Pyricularia grisea:Intermediate
Most outstanding descriptive characters
Plant characteristics
- Plant height (cm): 80
- Predominant tillering capacity: Very proliferates
- Panicle length (cm): 22
- Predominant panicle density: Semicompact
Ripe panicle of var. Caribbean 7
- Vegetative vigor: 5
- Ecotype: Intermediate
- Acame Resistance: Resistant
- Cold damage: Intermediate
Industrial Characteristics
- Grain / panicle: 98-123
- Full grain: 84-104
- Vain grain: 14-19
- % Grains filled: 86
- % Vain grains: 14
- Seed length (mm): 6.8
- Seed width (mm): 2.1
Rice grains of the var. Caribe 7 with shell and polished
- 1000 Grain Weight (g): 26
- % Shell: 24
- % Brown rice: 76
- % Polished rice: 65
- % Whole White Grain: 56
- % Matches: 8
- % Amylose: 19.4
- Protein%: 9.2
- Alcali Test: –
- Shear strength: Intermediate
