Research
Upland Crop Breeding Division
We strive to improve food self-sufficiency and revitalize the industry by developing high-quality domestic varieties of soybean, sesame, perilla, peanut, adzuki bean, mung bean, sorghum and millet.
We strive to improve food self-sufficiency and revitalize the industry by developing high-quality domestic varieties of soybean, sesame, perilla, peanut, adzuki bean, mung bean, sorghum and millet. - Develop, expand supply and industrialize soybean varieties for self-sufficiency of soybean according to its use
- Distributing Seonpung and Daechan to substitute slow-maturing variety Daewon
- Expanding supply of Seonyu No. 2 for high-quality double cropping of wheat and bean
- Expanding commercialization of high yielding and highly functional black soybean Cheongja No. 5
- Previously just for cooking → diversified uses (for fermentation, making soymilk, snacks, etc.)
- Develop, widely distribute and industrialize oil crop varieties improved for mechanical harvesting and processing quality
- Sesame : Haniall available for combine harvest, Milyang74 high in lignan content
- Perilla : reducing labor for leaf harvesting and harvested specifically for the leaves, Saebom
Peanut : high in oleic acid and grown exclusively ni Udo, UdoOle-1
- Develop, distribute and industrialize high value-added millet, sorghum, adzuki bean, and mungbean varieties adaptable to various cropping systems
- Sorghum : excellent for mechanical harvesting, Goenchal
- Millet : Olechal
- Adzuki bean : early maturity and small-sized grains, Hongda
