Breeding and improvement

Engineering humanity’s most important crops for a warming planet

Engineering humanity’s most important crops for a warming planet

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By Glenn Concepcion The world’s “cereal bowl”, or the production of rice, wheat, and maize, is under the dual challenges of a surging human population and a rapidly warming climate....

Wild ancestors may hold the key to more nutritious rice grains

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By Rhowell Tiozon and Glenn Concepcion For the nearly 9,000 years since its domestication, rice has been...

Inside the global effort to defend rice from major diseases

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By Van Schepler-Luu & Myrtel Anne Valenzuela Rice diseases such as bacterial blight and blast are no...

IRRI’s Connected Breeding sparks a new era in crop innovation

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Connected Breeding, a new breeding strategy by IRRI, is set to revolutionize rice breeding by unlocking complex...

A Quarter Century Since the SUB1A Gene: New Flood-Tolerant Rice and Feeding Millions

May 15, 2025

By Waseem Hussain, Mahender Anumalla, Margaret Catolos,  Joie Ramos, Ma Teresa Sta. Cruz, and Myrtel Valenzuela In a landmark study published...

Breeding and improvement

Big leap or small steps? How relentless rice breeding laid the foundation for modern food security

Engineering humanity’s most important crops for a warming planet

A new blueprint for crop breeding: IRRI’s OneRice Framework forges a faster, more efficient path to global food security

Wild ancestors may hold the key to more nutritious rice grains

Machine learning algorithms are helping scientists analyze and predict grain quality and nutritional content for rice breeding

Inside the global effort to defend rice from major diseases

IRRI’s Connected Breeding sparks a new era in crop innovation

IRRI scientists introduce Speed Breeding 3.0 to accelerate climate-resilient crop innovation with OneCGIAR

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A Quarter Century Since the SUB1A Gene: New Flood-Tolerant Rice and Feeding Millions

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