Breeding and improvement

From Green Super Rice to green agriculture: how rice functional genomics is leading a new revolution

From Green Super Rice to green agriculture: how rice functional genomics is leading a new revolution

September 14, 2018

The Green Super Rice project has made great progress in the past ten years using advances in...

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Temasek: a high-tech rice variety from Singapore

Temasek: a high-tech rice variety from Singapore

August 30, 2018 4

It may come as a surprise that the highly urbanized city-state is the birthplace of a sturdy...

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How rice plants “manage” water under drought

How rice plants “manage” water under drought

March 12, 2018 4

Because of low rainfall and lack of irrigation infrastructure, water management is often not an option for...

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A tool that tracks and stops bacterial blight outbreaks in rice

A tool that tracks and stops bacterial blight outbreaks in rice

February 13, 2018

A new, faster, and more accurate way of identifying infectious organisms—down to their genetic fingerprint—could finally put...

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Understanding the grain yield limitation and instability of aerobic rice

Understanding the grain yield limitation and instability of aerobic rice

February 5, 2018

Do rice plants have a wild adaptive trait that is counterproductive to aerobic cropping systems? 

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As floodwaters recede, farmers’ hopes emerge in Bangladesh

As floodwaters recede, farmers’ hopes emerge in Bangladesh

January 22, 2018

For thousands of Bangladeshi farmers in flood-prone areas, growing rice is a risk they have to take...

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Seeds of change

Seeds of change

December 13, 2017

With the right tools, ordinary people can be extraordinary agents of change.

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CRISPR-Cas system: Revolutionizing the genetic blueprint of rice

CRISPR-Cas system: Revolutionizing the genetic blueprint of rice

August 10, 2017

Recent advances with the CRISPR system— the world’s most promising gene-editing tool—could increase the speed of rice...

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Plant phenomics: unlocking the potential of rice diversity

Plant phenomics: unlocking the potential of rice diversity

August 3, 2017

The emerging field of plant phenomics combines biology, engineering, and data analytics to overcome laborious, expensive, and,...

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Starving the foes: new ways to protect rice against diseases

Starving the foes: new ways to protect rice against diseases

July 20, 2017

Scientists are looking at an innovative approach and a potential strategy to make rice resistant against pathogens...

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