| dc.description.abstract | Rice is a rice-producing crop and is a staple food in Indonesia. Rice
development is an important alternative to increase national rice production in
meeting the food needs of the Indonesian people. This study aims to characterize,
determine the advantages and weaknesses of morphological and agronomic
characters as well as the kinship of 10 rice cultivars from Simalungun Regency.
This research was carried out at the Greenhouse House, Faculty of Agriculture,
Universitas Sumatera Utara with a place height of ± 25 meters above sea level
starting from November 2024 to June 2025. This research was carried out by an
experimental method without a design, namely by deliberately sampling as many
as 3 sampled plants/cultivars. Character identification was carried out by the
guidance of the rice plant characterization and evaluation system by IRRI 2003
translation. The results of the study show that the morphological and agronomic
characteristics of 10 local rice cultivars have uniform and diverse properties both
in their qualitative and quantitative characteristics. The introduced local rice
cultivar from Simalungun Regency has superior characteristics such as the angle
of the erect leaf in 6 cultivars, the angle of the flag leaf of the upright criterion in
5 cultivars, the length of the panicle criterion is long in 9 cultivars, the grain
length of the criterion is very long in all cultivars, the width of the grain criterion
is wide in all cultivars, the number of productive saplings of the criterion is very
large in 8 cultivars, the total number of seedlings criterion is very large in all
cultivars, the total number of grain criteria is many Red Sibandung, Sipermaisuri
and Siaries, weight of 1000 grains of weight criteria in 4 cultivars, stubbornness
of strong criteria stems in 5 cultivars and the skin color of the red criteria rice in
Simedan and Red Sibandung cultivars while the color of the rice rind is brown
criteria in Sikawat cultivars, Sihalus and Red Sipandan. Sipermaisuri and
Sihalus cultivars have similarities in 34 parameters out of 46 parameters and
Sishort and Siaries cultivars have similarities in 28 parameters out of 46
qualitative and quantitative parameters, Siaries and Sikariting cultivars as
cultivars that have the furthest similarity level to the other 8 cultivars. | en_US |
