Compiled by Gene Hettel (Photos: IRRI archives) Over the last five decades, this selection from IRRI’s historical timeline has many Indian connections...

AKIRA TANAKA (left), head of IRRI’s Plant Physiology Department (1962-66), confers with the Institute’s first breeder Peter Jennings during the...

Five experts with wide-ranging knowledge—serving as the plenary speakers during the 4th International Rice Congress (IRC2014)—will be flagging cross-cutting...

The air pressure from the ventilators holds up the polyethylene plastic sheet over the rice grains. (Photo: Ana Salvatierra) In typical Philippine villages,...

(Photo: Ho Van Chien) For years, the entomologists at Vietnam’s Southern Regional Plant Protection Center in Long Dinh had tried to sell rice farmers...

German students get involved in taking measurements of greenhouse gas emissions from rice. (Photo: Isagani Serrano) Germany’s government and scientists...

(Photo: IRRI) Prabhjit woke to the sound of the roosters crowing, just as her mother, grandmother, and countless generations of women in the state of Odisha...

(Photo: IRRI) Innocent-looking rice plants also engage in courtship and marriage. The rites are simple, devoid of an elegant and expensive entourage. The...

Sign of the times. One of the effects of climate change is drought, which now occurs more frequently in some regions. (Photo: IRRI) Rice thrives in a...

Mysterious crop circles of incredible complexity that appear overnight, or a baseball park as in the 1989 film Field of dreams—who knows what you might...