Tag Archives: rice variety

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...

Can less favorable areas obtain food security?

Dr. Gelia Castillo, Filipino National Scientist. Rice is life. So, when the global rice crisis hit in 2008, it threatened many lives. The year became well...

Scuba rice: Stemming the tide in flood-prone South Asia

Even after 17 days of submergence in IRRI research plots, Sub1 rice lines show their “waterproof” trait as they are still standing to the left, right,...

I remember Honda Rice

The author (left) with former Viet Cong political officer Tran Van Rang on the Xa No Canal in the lower Mekong Delta in 1988. Rang has just explained why...

Breeding history

Examining IR8 in the Institute fields in August 1967 are IRRI breeder Hank Beachell (crouching), visiting philanthropist John D. Rockefeller III (left),...

Improving the sacred

THE NEW blast-resistant jasmine rice shortly before harvest. (Photo: Ubon Ratchathani Rice Research Center) Rice improvement efforts supported by the International...

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