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Improving health and nutrition through rice science

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

“Iron-clad” rice

Iron-enriched rice will soon contribute to reducing “hidden hunger.” (Photo: Kurniawan) Iron deficiency and iron deficiency anemia cause...

Doubled haploids: from laboratory to field

Plant breeders are always in search of new breeding tools to produce high-yielding crop varieties with superior grain and nutritional quality, which are also resistant to diseases and insects, and tolerant of environmental stresses (drought, flooding, salinity, cold, etc.). Of the many tools available, anther culture-derived doubled haploids (haploid cells having two copies...

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