Research Project
Full description This project aims to progress current knowledge of aroma in rice beyond the current plateau, and to ensure that the Australian rice industry obtains a competitive advantage in breeding for high quality and high-yielding aromatic germplasm. The objectives of the project are to: 1: Develop breeding targets for aroma and texture by defining the compounds, in addition to 2AP, that define the aroma and flavour of the popular jasmine styles of rices using the new technology of GCxGC MS, and descriptive sensory profiling for taste and texture, and use this target list to screen breeding material from Yanco to enable selection of aromatic material with superior sensory properties. 2: Characterise aromatic material in Yanco's breeding program, imported under CSE/2009/005, and of interest to the Sunrice Marketing Team by sensory profiling and the new technique of GCxGCMS to inform the rice breeding program. 3: Determine the effect of drought, salinity, nutrition and climatic (tropical vs temperate) conditions on the volatile compounds in the parental material, and a selection of promising progeny in order to determine variability in environmental effects on aroma and flavour.