Narrative
Scarlett is a long grain rice with red bran targeted for specialty market. It does not possess undesirable characteristics associated with some red bran varieties like seed dormancy or shattering. It is like its recurrent parent, Jefferson, for many agronomic traits including panicle length, seed per panicle, tiller number, lodging resistance, seedling vigor, semidwarf height, glaborous, and awnless. However, it was 6 days later in heading (74 days) and 10 cm taller (101 cm) than Jefferson. Genetic marker analysis indicates, like Jefferson, it has the same genes controlling amylose content, alkali spreading value, and starch pasting properties indicating it will cook dry and flaky like conventional USA long grains. Likewise, genetic marker analysis indicates it possesses the major genes for blast resistance Pi-km and Pi-z, like Jefferson, which conveys resistance to races IH-1, IG-1, IC-17, IE-1, IE-1k, IB45, and IB54 of Magnaporthe oryzae. The red bran of Scarlett contains lipophilic antioxidants including the vitamin E family (four homologs of tocopherols and four homologs of tocotrienols) and gamma-oryzanol, a group of phytosterol compounds. It also contains polyphenols including the red bran specific flavonoids, proanthocyanidins. Compared with light brown bran rice cultivars, the contents of total flavonoid, total phenolic and antiradical capacity of Scarlett were more than 7-, 12- and 4-fold greater, respectively, than those in Cocodrie, Presidio and Sierra.