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Beware of bronzing

WITA 12, a rice variety with moderate tolerance of iron toxicity, in a field trial, Niaouli, Benin. (Photo: Moussa Sie) A bronzed look may be attractive...

The perfect marriage

The Embrapa-Cirad hybrid seed production system in upland conditions at Sinop, Mato Grosso. (Photo: Embrapa) The Embrapa-Cirad hybrid seed production system...

Bred from Louisiana

(Photos: Karen Bearb) The development of rice varieties helps guarantee sustainable rice production in the state of Louisiana and elsewhere in the United...

Greener rice

Green Super Rice varieties growing at the National Agriculture and Forestry Research Institute (NAFRI) in Laos are farmer- as well as environment-friendly...

Hybridizing the world

(Photo: William Sta. Clara) It is fair to say that, without a successful hybrid rice program, China would have struggled to achieve its phenomenal growth...

Grappling with cold

Because of cold, most farmers in the mountainous areas of Kayapa, Nueva Vizcaya, either turn their rice fields into vegetable gardens or leave them uncultivated...

Rice in the Golden State: California breeding

From left to right: Dana Dickey, Jim Hill, Tim Johnson, Jeremy Zwinger, and Kent McKenzie. (Photo: California Rice Commission) The successive articles...

The new frontier

A spectrum of varieties. Rice genome diversity reflects the landscapes where rice is grown – from lowland paddies to sloping uplands. (Photo:IRRI) The...

The revolution keeps rolling

It has been well documented that the Asian Green Revolution (GR), which began in the 1960s with the introduction of modern, high-yielding rice varieties,...

The aerobic rice reality

Ask someone to think of a rice field and odds are they’ll imagine a flooded paddy. Growing rice in puddled fields works well as long as there’s enough water to do it. But, increasingly, that’s not always the case. As populations increase and the industrial and urban sectors compete with agriculture for water, “aerobic rice” offers a water-saving alternative to...

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