Tag Archives: international rice research institute

Rice fields in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam. (Photo by V. Meadu, CCAFS.) Vietnam has the highest methane emissions from paddy rice production in the Southeast...

Proven technologies, policies, and institutional resources need to be collectively adopted to ensure the mitigation of stress-driven shocks at different...

  The promise of a bountiful harvest beckons as these rice plants show. Rice is eaten by half of the worlds population-3 billion people approximately....

Recent advances with the CRISPR system— the world’s most promising gene-editing tool—could increase the speed of rice breeding. ...

Mr. Hossain (at the podium) called on researchers and media practitioners to use instructional videos to spread knowledge, information, and technologies...

The Mekong River Basin constitutes a resource-rich river system that provides water, food, and energy to millions of people in China, Myanmar, Thailand,...

The emerging field of plant phenomics combines biology, engineering, and data analytics to overcome laborious, expensive, and, often, technically challenging...

Scientists are looking at an innovative approach and a potential strategy to make rice resistant against pathogens that have evolved to bypass the plant’s...

“Global warming is real and it will reduce rice productivity,” stressed Dr. Tolentino during his presentation. “Vietnam should improve the quality...

Opportunities exist to improve the nutritional content of rice varieties to solve the micronutrient-deficiency problem affecting more than two billion...