More rice, less gas: Chinese and Swedish scientists create hybrid to cut methane emissions
Researchers hope to register their rice in China for farmers and are working with firms to add oxantel to fertilisers.
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Plant biologists show how two genes work together to trigger embryo formation in rice
If the hybrid plants could reproduce asexually, farmers could save seed from one year to the next. How to engineer asexually reproducing rice has been a puzzle that scientists have been trying to ...
The Rice Revolution: Slashing 70% of Methane Emissions While Boosting Yields
Scientists have developed a new rice strain that emits 70% less methane, addressing a major source of greenhouse gas ...
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Hybrid Rice Developer Yuan Longping Dies at 90
Yuan Longping, an agronomist who developed strains of high-yield rice that made significant progress against ... due to concerns of how the environment would be affected by altered plants. After ...
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Would you eat lab-grown beef rice?
Researchers in South Korea have created a hybrid rice with lab-grown beef ... So the idea of lacing rice — a plant-based ...
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The Contribution of Science and Technology to Agriculture
and the cultivation of plant cells and tissues, anther culture, haploid breeding and the research on its application have reached the world’s advanced level. Bilinear hybrid rice, hybrid corn ...
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PM’s Principal Secretary endorses use of hybrid seeds in rice, pulses, oilseeds
Endorsing the use of hybrid seeds to increase ... Centre (CIMMYT), International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and the Indian Society of Plant Genetic Resources (ISPGR). The Federation of Seed ...
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More rice, less gas: Scientists create hybrid to cut methane emissions
Chinese and Swedish researchers have developed a high-yield rice variety that emits up to 70% less methane than normal rice ...