According to the invention, there is provided a novel rice cultivar, designated LSUAC Hi Protein Rice. ‘LSUAC Hi Protein Rice’ has up to an average 53% improvement in protein content with levels averaging 11%. The variety is described as semi-dwarf, and very early maturing. The invention relates to the seeds of rice cultivar LSUAC Hi Protein Rice, to the plants of rice cultivar LSUAC Hi Protein Rice, to plant parts of rice cultivar LSUAC Hi Protein Rice, to methods for producing a rice cultivar by crossing the rice cultivar LSUAC Hi Protein Rice with another rice cultivar, and to methods for producing a rice cultivar containing in its genetic material one or more backcross conversion traits or transgenes and to the backcross conversion rice plants and plant parts produced by those methods.
