DISTRIBUTION OF MORPHOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL KEY DIAGNOSTIC CHARACTERS IN THE COLLECTION OF SCENTED RICE.

Most of the characters taken for categorization based on key are again depend on environmental and biotic and abiotic stress and also influenced by the practices followed by the farmers. But based on the external morphology and pigmentation on the seed, plant and their reactions to various chemicals the genotypes can be grouped. the scented rice genotypes which are collected from the different places of northern Karnataka are grouped and studied the distribution based on the Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers Right (Act , 2007). Estimates of physico-chemical quality parameters supplemented with organoleptic attributes were observed to be adequate to provide confirmatory unscrupulous identification of basmati rice. These landraces can be popularized among the farmers and can be used as donor in varietal development programme.