Maryam Hosseini Chaleshtori, the presenter of this paper, is an Associate Research Professor at the Rice Research Institute of Iran. She possesses 23 years of experience in rice research and breeding. A significant portion of her research focuses on rice landraces; she has conducted studies on genetic diversity, the purification of landraces, and the breeding of rice cultivars utilizing the genetic background of these landraces. Some of the results of this work are presented here.