‘Samdamae’ is a foxtail millet variety developed and registered by Department of Functional Crop, NICS, RDA in2010. This variety was developed through the pure line breeding method from ‘Namjaeju’ landrace. Leaf color is changed fromgreen to yellowish green at late growth stage. This variety has about 101 days growth duration from transplanting to harvestingin Milyang of Korea. It is about 130 cm in culm length and tolerant to lodging in field. In reaction to biotic stresses in field,it shows resistance to blast, and stripe disease, but susceptibility to insect pests. The ‘Samdamae’ exhibits non-glutinousendosperm. The milled yield performance of this variety is about 2.42 MT/ha in local adaptability test from 2009 to 2010. The‘Samdamae’ would be adaptable to plain area of Korea.
