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The future faces of rice science

(Photo: Isagani Serrano) In November 2012, young rice researchers mostly working at IRRI received support in professional development through a milestone...

Where rice pests and diseases do the most damage

Lesions of sheath blight on a highly susceptible rice variety. (Photo: IRRI) In a study conducted by the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI),...

Hybrids head for the tropics

(Photo: Isagani Serrano) Hybrid rice has the potential to produce up to 30% more yield than the best-performing modern inbred varieties, thanks to A hybrid...

A craze for maize

Maize ears from CIMMYT’s collection, showing a wide variety of colors and shapes. CIMMYT’s germplasm bank contains about 28,000 unique samples...

A sunburned grain

As long as there’s enough water to grow rice, Australia’s highly efficient rice industry achieves some of the highest yields in the world. (Photos:...

Myanmar: One year after a devastating cyclone, a bitter harvest

During the night of 2 May 2008, Cyclone Nargis barreled across Myanmar’s Ayeyarwady delta, flattening homes and sweeping away people, draft animals,...

Balancing fertilizer use and profit

Farmers in China applying fertilizer on an aerobic rice field. (Photo: IRRI) As fertilizer prices increase, research and extension often send farmers...

Rice revolutions in Latin America

In 1962, scientists at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) debated the cause of low and stagnant rice yields in the tropics: was it variety or crop management? This debate ended with the release of the semidwarf IR8 in 1966, initiating the Green Revolution. The same variety, in the same year, extended this revolution to Latin America, beginning in Colombia...

The monoculture myth

Almost everyone acknowledges that the Green Revolution has substantially increased the yield and supply of cereals in the developing world during the past...

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