Tag Archives: breeding

Tobias Kretzschmar: Bridging discovery work with applied science

In this interview, molecular biologist Tobias Kretzschmar shares his scientific journey and offers tips to aspiring scientists. ...

Technology on display: A glimpse of Philippine agriculture’s future

During his visit to IRRI, Secretary Piñol was interested in bringing advances in rice production developed through IRRI’s research to the farmers “so we can focus on food production and poverty alleviation,” which is a cornerstone of President Rodrigo Duterte’s administration.  “Technologies are useless unless they are in the hands of farmers,” said Secretary...

Change is coming to Philippine agriculture

Emmanuel Piñol, the new secretary of the Department of Agriculture, aims to achieve food security through the rapid and effective transfer of technologies...

50 years of tracking farming changes in the Philippine rice granary

Loop surveys were conducted in the wet and dry season every four to five years from 1966-67 to 2011-12—the longest farm surveys in existence—in which...

EPIC: A new partnership for rice pest management in Cambodia

The overreaction of  rice farmers towards pests and diseases is creating the biggest negative impact on Cambodia’s society. ...

Celebrating 50 years of IR8: U.S. President Johnson makes historic visit to IRRI with stirring words

This year, 2016, IRRI is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the release of IR8, the first semidwarf rice variety that changed agriculture across Asia,...

Digital genes

An ambitious project plans to create an online catalog of rice genes in which breeders can choose from hundreds of thousands of genetic materials in the...

Shalabh Dixit: The link between rice genes and rice farmers

A quantitative trait locus, or QTL, is an incredibly small section of the DNA that, in the hands of critical-thinking scientists, has the potential to...

Myanmar partners produce high-yielding salinity-tolerant rice varieties

Sixty farmers participated in evaluating new salinity-tolerant rice varieties in a farmer’s field in Meikhtilar District, Mandalay to identify new high-yielding...

Women on the path to progress

In India, self-help groups have made a tremendous impact on the lives of poor women in rural areas.  ...

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