Table 1. Number (percentage) of accessions belonging to different cultivar types in three groups of Chinese germplasm used in this study.
| Group | Sample size a |
Seasonal type
|
Drought-tolerant type
|
Endosperm type
|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Early | Medium | Late | Lowland | Upland | Waxy | Non-waxy | ||
| indica | 495 | 43 (8.7%) | 245 (49.5%) | 207 (41.8%) | 401 (81.0%) | 94 (19.0%) | 72 (14.5%) | 423 (85.5%) |
| temperate japonica | 201 | 23 (11.4%) | 77 (38.3%) | 101 (50.3%) | 178 (88.6%) | 23 (11.4%) | 83 (41.3%) | 118 (58.7%) |
| tropical japonica | 82 | 3 (3.7%) | 27 (32.9%) | 52 (63.4%) | 10 (12.2%) | 72 (87.8%) | 45 (54.9%) | 37 (45.1%) |
| Total | 778 | 69 (8.9%) | 349 (44.8%) | 360 (46.3%) | 589 (75.7%) | 189 (24.3%) | 200 (25.7%) | 578 (74.3%) |
a
Admixed accessions among three groups were excluded.