Q.Name the rice variety with saline tolerance and pest resistance.

Atomita-2, a mutation-bred rice variety, combines saline-soil tolerance with pest resistance.

Mutation breeding uses physical mutagens (such as gamma rays or X-rays) or chemical mutagens to induce random genetic variation in seeds, from which breeders then select individuals carrying an agriculturally useful mutation. Atomita-2, developed in Indonesia through gamma-ray-induced mutation breeding of a local rice cultivar, is a widely cited success story of this technique: the selected mutant line combines tolerance to saline and tidal-swamp soils with resistance to major pests like the brown planthopper and to bacterial leaf blight, alongside earlier maturity than the parent variety -- a package of traits that would be very difficult to combine through conventional cross-breeding alone. Ordinary wild-type or standard dwar …