Central Rice Research Institute, Cuttack
Seven hundred and ninety six pigmented rice varieties from 30 countries were studied for anthocyanin pigmentation pattern in fifteen plant parts. Of these, 719 types were grouped into fifty seven classes; the remaining seventy seven types could not be grouped, as each one formed a different class by itself. There was no variety in which all plant parts under study were pigmented. Certain inferences have been drawn on the inter-relationship of genes and gene loci governing pigmentation in different plant parts.
