Sentences with phrase «new rice varieties»

These markers can help make breeding new rice varieties not only faster but also less costly because these tools can reduce the number of field trials required in rice breeding programs.

This includes initiating and managing numerous field sites for testing locally - adapted potential new rice varieties for the country.

Once specific genes associated with beneficial traits are identified, they can be more efficiently transferred into new rice varieties using other breeding methods.

The women learned to grow rice and test new rice varieties and farming technologies through a farmer field school.

New rice varieties with the enhanced capacity to take up phosphorus may be available within a few years to farmers.

More than 50 years, we are developing and improving new rice varieties.

The genetic diversity of rice is used to breed new rice varieties.

The unique advantage of genetic modification lies in its ability to incorporate novel genes with useful traits into new rice varieties.

Located 50 kilometers south of Manila on the slopes of the dormant volcano Mt. Makiling in Los Baños, Laguna, the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) has spent more than 50 years developing new rice varieties for poor farmers and studying different environmentally friendly and relatively pesticide - free methods of rice field management that farmers can use.

Rice research and the development of new rice varieties in particular greatly contributed to this.

Dr. Joseph Bigirimana, IRRI's liaison scientist and coordinator in Burundi, said, «We are very happy that IRRI has released these two new rice varieties in Burundi.

Eero provided leadership for transforming rice breeding programs towards more targeted product development, which will allow IRRI to develop new rice varieties faster and more efficiently through applying new breeding strategies and tools.

Bacterial blight nevertheless remains an important concern and many countries will not endorse the release of new rice varieties unless they carry resistance to the disease.

Conserving and sharing the genetic diversity of rice helps rice breeders develop new rice varieties suited to local conditions and needs.

To become self sufficient in rice Indonesia has to continue its excellent work in developing new rice varieties specifically suited to the country, increase rice's capacity to cope with the impacts of climate change, and find ever more environmentally sustainable ways to grow rice.

IRRI and Indonesia continue to collaborate in rice breeding to deliver new rice varieties to farmers.

The new regional office will focus on developing and testing new rice varieties matched to the different rice production ecologies across Eastern and Southern Africa.

Southeast Asian rice farmers are harvesting an extra US$ 1.46 billion worth of rice a year as a result of rice breeding - the science that brings new rice varieties to farmers - by the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), according to a new Australian report.

Standard regulatory systems for new rice varieties require multi-season testing to ensure performance, pest and disease resistance and consumption quality.

Farmers in Burundi will soon sow the seeds of hard work and international cooperation with the release of two new rice varieties set to boost rice production and meet the rapidly growing demand for rice in Burundi.

In the Philippines, IRRI works closely with the Department of Agriculture, Philippines Rice Research Institute (PhilRice), and other partners to upscale potential new rice varieties.

«With advances in technology, we can expedite the breeding process to ensure new rice varieties are available every year for the region,» said Dobermann.

Research collaboration is ongoing, including pest and disease management, sustainable farming systems, and conserving the genetic diversity of rice, with breeding new rice varieties remaining a priority.

According to an Australian report, Indonesia receives an average of more than US$ 644 million per year of benefits thanks to rice breeding — the science that provides new rice varieties to farmers — as delivered by IRRI.

Bacterial blight nevertheless remains an important concern and many countries will not endorse the release of new rice varieties unless they carry resistance to the disease.

Eero provided leadership for transforming rice breeding programs towards more targeted product development, which will allow IRRI to develop new rice varieties faster and more efficiently through applying new breeding strategies and tools.

Beyond this, the unique power of GM lies in its ability to incorporate novel genes with useful traits for rice, including genes from plants and organisms unrelated to rice, into new rice varieties that can not be achieved using other breeding methods.

IRRI is breeding new rice varieties with better tolerance or resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses — particularly blast, sheath rot, cold temperatures, salinity, and iron toxicity — while maintaining the high quality grain preferred by consumers.

IRRI develops new rice varieties and rice crop management techniques that help rice farmers improve the yield and quality of their rice in an environmentally sustainable way.

Farmers and consumers benefit from rice genetic research because it leads to new rice varieties that have higher yield, higher quality, and are more resistant to pests, diseases, and the effects of climate change.

Breeding a new rice variety typically takes 8 - 9 years.

The choice of compositional parameters was based on the OECD consensus document on compositional considerations for new rice varieties, which for rice paddy included proximates, fibre, polysaccharides, fatty acids, amino acids, minerals, vitamins, and anti-nutrients.

This continuous pipeline of new rice varieties is critical to meet new demands such as adapting to a changing climate and outbreaks of pests like brown planthoppers.

New rice varieties are also tested in pest and disease «hot - spots» to check their performance under pest and disease pressure before release so that no vulnerable varieties are distributed to farmers.

«Testing of new rice varieties that have the SPIKE gene is under way in multilocation trials across several developing countries in Asia, including Indonesia.

As the world's largest nonprofit independent research and training organization IRRI develops new rice varieties and crop management techniques to address poverty and hunger and improve the health of rice farmers and consumers in a sustainable manner.

«Scientists at RG7 are sharing the latest innovations that help us understand all this genetic diversity and capture it to breed new rice varieties,» he added.

Other initiatives have included the development of new rice varieties, improvement of rice farm management, deployment of small - scale farm machinery, and strengthening of rice expertise.

As the global leader for GRiSP Theme 2, Eero provided the overall leadership for accelerating the development of new rice varieties and hybrids.

Genetic modification can also greatly increase the accuracy of incorporating only those genes for the needed trait into a new rice variety.

The EC has historically supported IRRI's work to conserve the genetic diversity of rice, understand the function of rice genes, and develop new rice varieties, particularly for use in difficult growing environments.

It greatly increases the accuracy of incorporating only the gene of interest, and its associated trait, into a new rice variety.

«The agreement meant that a new rice variety released in India could just as easily be released in Bangladesh or Nepal if they wanted a similar variety and vice-versa,» explained Matthew Morell, IRRI director general.

By selecting the best performing rice plants and using them to breed new rice varieties, rice farmers, and more recently rice breeders, have been changing the genetic composition of rice to generate new and improved rice varieties for thousands of years.

The discovery of the PSTOL1 gene means that rice breeders will be able to breed new rice varieties faster and more easily, and with 100 % certainty their new rice will have the gene.

As such, a variety released in one country is still required to go through a similar vetting process in a neighbouring country, increasing the time to market these new rice varieties.

IRRI - Burundi developed the new rice varieties especially for Burundi after recognizing the urgent need for better rice varieties adapted to local conditions and matching farmer and consumer needs.

Today, development of new rice varieties is focused on adaptability to the effects of climate change, specifically, flooding, soil salinity, and drought.