Sentences with phrase «impacts of rice varieties»
Impacts of rice varieties and management on yield - scaled greenhouse gas emissions from rice fields in China: A meta - analysis.
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They are planting several varieties of rice with different traits and characteristics as insurance on whatever impacts the climate may bring them.
Dr. Darshan Brar, former head of IRRI's Plant Breeding, Genetics, and Biotechnology Unit and 2007 CGIAR Outstanding Scientist, describes IRRI's historical rice varieties and their impact.
In its notice of decision dated March 16, 2018, Health Canada declared that «changes made in this rice variety did not pose a greater risk to human health than rice varieties currently available on the Canadian market», further noting that «GR2E would have no impact on allergies, and that there were no differences in the nutritional value of GR2E compared to other traditional rice varieties available for consumption except for increased levels of provitamin A.
IRRI Director General Dr. Matthew Morell affirmed that a robust regulatory landscape is essential to amplifying the impact of Golden Rice and other nutritionally fortified rice varieties such as high zinc rRice and other nutritionally fortified rice varieties such as high zinc rrice varieties such as high zinc ricerice.
IRRI is also monitoring the impact of adopted varieties and rice technologies through extensive household surveys and assessment of outcomes from identified metrics and indicators of development.
Example of typical annual outputs and outcomes along the impact pway for improved rice varieties
Dr. Darshan Brar, former head of IRRI's Plant Breeding, Genetics, and Biotechnology Unit and 2007 CGIAR Outstanding Scientist, describes IRRI's historical rice varieties and their impact.
In contrast, white varieties of rice have the germ and bran of the grain polished away, which diminishes their nutritional profile and increases their glycemic load, or impact on blood sugar levels.
Her NGO, Navdanya, has been a proponent of biodiversity since 1991 and is currently fighting the development of Golden Rice, a Vitamin A-rich variety, claiming it's not as beneficial as it seems and could have a heavy impact on the environment.