Drought-tolerant rice varieties help ensure food security in Eastern India Drought-tolerant rice varieties help ensure food security in Eastern India May 7, 2020 Sahbhagi dhan and other drought-tolerant rice varieties can be viable and deliverable technologies for reducing poverty in...Read More
Adding color to future rice breeding Adding color to future rice breeding March 23, 2020 In recent years, the demand for pigmented rice varieties has enjoyed a resurgence in popularity among consumers....Read More
Bacterial blight-resistance gene discovered in wild rice from South America Bacterial blight-resistance gene discovered in wild rice from South America February 26, 2020 Bacterial blight of rice caused by Xanthomonasoryzae pv. oryzae (Xoo) is one of the most destructive diseases...Read More
New gene metrics eliminate hit-or-miss in emerging rice breeding technologies New gene metrics eliminate hit-or-miss in emerging rice breeding technologies May 2, 2019 A proposed standard for determining the reliability of genetic markers makes modern integrated breeding approaches more consistent...Read More
New improved rice varieties for Burundi today, food security for Africa tomorrow New improved rice varieties for Burundi today, food security for Africa tomorrow November 16, 2018 Read More
Value chains and policy work are crucial to the adoption of Golden Rice and other biofortified genetically modified crops Value chains and policy work are crucial to the adoption of Golden Rice and other biofortified genetically modified crops September 25, 2018 After Golden Rice receives all the required approvals for food, feed, and cultivation and is found to...Read More
From Green Super Rice to green agriculture: how rice functional genomics is leading a new revolution From Green Super Rice to green agriculture: how rice functional genomics is leading a new revolution September 14, 2018 The Green Super Rice project has made great progress in the past ten years using advances in...Read More
Temasek: a high-tech rice variety from Singapore Temasek: a high-tech rice variety from Singapore August 30, 2018 4 It may come as a surprise that the highly urbanized city-state is the birthplace of a sturdy...Read More
How rice plants “manage” water under drought How rice plants “manage” water under drought March 12, 2018 4 Because of low rainfall and lack of irrigation infrastructure, water management is often not an option for...Read More
A tool that tracks and stops bacterial blight outbreaks in rice A tool that tracks and stops bacterial blight outbreaks in rice February 13, 2018 A new, faster, and more accurate way of identifying infectious organisms—down to their genetic fingerprint—could finally put...Read More