Tag Archives: genetics

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...

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

A team of scientists from the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and the University of California Riverside recently published a study unlocking...

Science-based improvements in agricultural technology have contributed significantly—across two Green Revolutions—to alleviating hunger and poverty...

In the new era of genomic research, “genome editing” technology has been developed, consisting of new tools that enable not only rapid alterations...

Gericho Soriano and Mau Tanaka won the top prize for their scientific poster at the recently held 2015 UST Pharmacy Research Expo. Mr. Soriano and...

  The Young Researchers' Lunch hosted Glenn Gregorio, the outgoing deputy head of IRRI's Plant Breeding, Genetics and Biotechnology Division. Dr....

“It is not science that has held back the use of molecular genetics in rice breeding,” says a former anti-GMO activist, “it is politics.”...

A seed of rice that could transform the developing world saved Asha Ram Pal’s farm in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh in the summer of 2008. Mr. Pal...

Before scientists ever started crossing different rice plants, farmers had inadvertently been at it for centuries. By the mid- 1800s, scientists were catching...