Tag Archives: resistance+disease

The prospects for rice self-sufficiency in sub-Saharan Africa are being subverted by abiotic and biotic factors, including plant diseases. Several important...

Ms. Afolabi Oluwatoyin Oluwakemi (far right), research assistant at AfricaRice Center is training young researchers how to detect pathogens that cause...

(Photo: Isagani Serrano) July is National Nutrition Month every year in the Philippines. This year’s theme is Together we can end hunger and malnutrition....

Cesar Martinez. (Photo: Neil Palmer, CIAT) Several factors influenced César Martínez’s lifelong devotion to rice. One was an early mentor’s enthusiasm...

The wild relatives of rice are repositories of important traits that help breeders improve rice. (Photo: IRRI) Scientists are scouring the deep and “wild”...