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Crop lodging is the most important constraint in achieving high yields and plant breeders agree that more research is needed to develop lodging-resistant rice varieties. However, screening for lodging susceptibility under natural conditions is difficult because of unpredictable weather conditions. Until...

Genetic gain is the amount of increase in performance achieved annually through artificial selection. Genetic gain estimation is vital for any crop breeding...

The adoption of stress-tolerant versions of popular rice cultivars can enable farming communities to mitigate the current and future challenges of recurrent...

This study was motivated by a need to document and understand how genebank users make use of genetic resources to enhance access to, and promote the use...

In Kenya, Komboka can enhance food and nutrition security by increasing local rice production which will, in turn, contribute to a reduction of rice imports...

To enhance crop production in a sustainable manner, Green Super Rice (GSR) was proposed as a new goal for rice breeding and production based on the prospect...

This Primer describes the history of rice domestication, the importance of wild relatives of rice for crop improvement, and the domestication of wild species...

The Green Super Rice (GSR) breeding strategy began in 2008 at IRRI to efficiently develop lines with multiple-stress tolerance and more nutrient- and water-use...

The prospects for rice self-sufficiency in sub-Saharan Africa are being subverted by abiotic and biotic factors, including plant diseases. Several important...

The objective of the proposed software package EasyIDP (easy intermediate data processor) is to address previously identified difficulties and decrease...