Plant varietal registration and photodocumentation of traditional rice varieties: a means to countryside development
2018
Alvariño, J.B. | Mananghaya, T. | Ferrer, M. | Duldulao, M. | Niones, J. | Romero, M.V. | Perez, L.
Introduction of modern rice varieties has eventually led traditional rice varieties (TRVs) to extinction thus PhilRice initiated conservation activities to save these valuable genetic resources. Philippines houses a significant number of diverse TRVs mostly kept by Indigenous People (IP) and upland rice farmers yet lack of documentation hence, they were unprotected and vulnerable to illegal claims. A total of 179 traditional rice varieties were collected throughout the Philippines from 2014 to 2017 and these TRVs remains unregistered in the Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI). In this study, 179 collected Philippine TRVs were used in photo-documentation of eight distinct qualitative traits. It aims to establish the defensive protection of the collected TRVs from illegitimate ownership claims and create an individual TRV profile through morphological characterization and photo-documentation. Comprehensive photo-documentation was done from seedling to post harvest. Auricle in vegetative, open and close spikelet; and whole plant in reproductive stage; matured panicle, rough rice, dehulled and polished grains in post-harvest. A total of 72 TRVS has a complete photo-documentation and 21 characterization data was selected by BPI for Plant registry: 15 for qualitative and 6 for quantitative traits. There are 27 traditional rice varieties already included in Philippine Traditional Rice Varieties catalog volume I and 41 TRVs has been submitted to BPI for plant varietal registration. Selected morphological traits, name of TRVs, origin (municipality and province) and PhilRice collection number are included in the registry information sheet. Certificate of registration for individual TRVs will be issued by BPI. Data on morphological characterization of registered TRVs will be available in BPI's website.
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