Abstract:During the seedling stage, rice variety Jijing 813 had approximately 25% of the seedlings exhibiting albino traits. This study effectively improved the albino seedling trait of Jijing 813 through two methods: backcross breeding and purification and rejuvenation. Backcross breeding took a longer time for improvement, requiring five growth cycles to obtain stable improved materials; however, this process also achieved gene recombination,thereby improving other related traits. The purification and rejuvenation method only required one growth cycle to complete the improvement, and the improved material was consistent with Jijing 813 in all traits except albino seedling traits. In addition, this study confirmed that the albino seedling trait of rice variety Jijing 813 is controlled by a single recessive nuclear gene, which is consistent with Mendelian genetic rules; the albinism gene OsCAO1 was identified through whole-genome resequencing.