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    El Paso 144

    A long-grain cultivar developed in Uruguay from IR930-2 × IR665-31-2-4, and held in the USDA collection as an Uruguayan cultivar. Its brown-rice kernels are slender, about 7.3 × 2.1 mm.

    A pale ivory polished long-grain rice kernel, an editorial study supplied for El Paso 144.
    El Paso 144 — corrected polished-grain editorial study, not to scale. The amber original is retained in the archive. Appearance alone does not authenticate the cultivar.

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    The USDA germplasm record lists El Paso L-144 as a cultivar developed in Uruguay, with the pedigree IR930-2/IR665-31-2-4, entered among lines selected at the Fourth Workshop for Evaluation and Selection of Rice Germplasm for Tropical South America, held in Venezuela in 1992. It is classed as long-grain, with light-brown bran and brown-rice kernels of 7.3 × 2.1 mm (ratio 3.5); the dimensions on this page are those brown-rice measurements.

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