All Articles Tagged As: rice

The Philippines triples its rice yield (2/22/2010)

In the last 50 years, the Philippines has more than tripled its rice yield, while the world average rice yield has increased only about 2.3 times. ...> Full Article

Thai hill farmers help preserve genetic diversity of rice (1/6/2010)

Traditional rice cultivation methods practiced in the isolated hillside farms of Thailand are helping preserve the genetic diversity of rice, one of the world's most important food crops, according to a new study by researchers at Washington University in St. Louis and Chiang Mai University in Thailand. ...> Full Article

See no weevil: researcher tracks rice bugs to help farmers, consumers (8/17/2009)

When something's bugging rice farmers, a large segment of the world's population will know. That's because a big bite of the supply is taken by hungry insects every year.One of the worst is the rice water weevil. Its gray snout has chomped through the world making a sizable dent in rice supplies.A Texas researcher is splashing through rice paddies with his net to discover news ways of controlling the rice-craving insect. ...> Full Article

Global team develops tools to unravel diversity of rice (7/30/2009)

By looking at what different types of rice have in common, a team of international scientists are unlocking rice's genetic diversity to help conserve it and find valuable rice genes to help improve rice production. ...> Full Article

Getting to the bottom of rice (7/26/2009)

Global rice research community provides critical tools to unravel the diversity of rice ...> Full Article

Rice defies its reputation as a thirsty crop (7/21/2009)

Two new sister lines of rice are defying rice's reputation as a thirsty crop as they demonstrate their improved productivity in drought-prone regions of India and the Philippines. ...> Full Article

Arizona researchers to sequence West African rice strain (7/17/2009)

A $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation will allow University of Arizona researchers to unlock the genetic code of West African cultivated rice. ...> Full Article

Unleashing the power in beer (7/12/2009)

Brewing beer creates tons of leftover used grains. But that waste can be turned into fuel, as a EUREKA-backed partnership of German and Slovakian developers has shown. ...> Full Article

Scientists closer to developing salt-tolerant crops (7/9/2009)

An international team of scientists has developed salt-tolerant plants using a new type of genetic modification, bringing salt-tolerant cereal crops a step closer to reality. ...> Full Article

Golden rice an effective source of vitamin A (5/16/2009)

The beta-carotene in so-called "golden rice" converts to vitamin A in humans, according to researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and Tufts University in an article that appears in the current issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. ...> Full Article

Researchers examine bacterial rice diseases, search for genetic solutions (4/1/2009)

Some types of rice are naturally resistant to the Xanthomonas bacteria. In those varieties a research team is exposing the plants to the two bacteria. They then check to see which plant genes are activated, and to what extent. ...> Full Article

200,000 rice mutants available worldwide for scientific investigation (3/6/2009)

Researchers have estimated the number of different rice mutants needed to have a mutant for every gene as somewhere between 180,698 and 460,000. Two hundred thousand rice mutants are now available and have been mapped. ...> Full Article

Technology identified could reduce the spread of rice virus (2/13/2009)

Discovery could lead to increased rice crop yields ...> Full Article

Gene's past could improve the future of rice (1/26/2009)

In an effort to improve rice varieties, a Purdue University researcher was part of a team that traced the evolutionary history of domesticated rice by using a process that focuses on one gene. Agronomy Professor Scott A. Jackson said studying the gene allows researchers to better understand how it evolved over time through natural selection and human interaction. Understanding the variations could allow scientists to place genes from wild rice species into domesticated rice to create varieties with more favorable characteristics. ...> Full Article

New, higher-yielding rice plant could ease threat of hunger for poor (1/21/2009)

Global consortium of scientists developing rice that would boost yields ...> Full Article

New agreement opens avenues for strengthening Indian rice research (1/19/2009)

Short- and long-term projects promise to boost production and raise farmer income ...> Full Article