Using rice cultivar mixtures: a sustainable approach for managing diseases and increasing yield Integrated natural resource management for rice production
Not exact matches
Dr. Kshirod K. Jena, a principal scientist at IRRI whose research has been on breaking the yield barrier of
rice using genomics strategy, and his team discovered that the gene Gn1a - type 3 allele had not been very effective in indica
cultivars.
There is a pressing need to look for sustainable ways to accelerate the production, dissemination, and adoption of new
rice varieties to meet future demand and prevent
cultivar depreciation from the continuous
use of farm - saved seeds.
In areas of the world where
rice consumption is very high, the
rice types (
cultivars) with the lowest arsenic content should be identified and
used for the preparation of infant foods.
African (O. glaberrima) strains will be
used to developed stress - tolerant
cultivars and develop new interspecific varieties containing greater and more targeted parts of the African
rice genome.
We have pioneered studies demonstrating that low - yielding wild and exotic Oryza species harbor genes and quantitative trait loci (QTL) that can be
used to enhance the performance of modern, high - yielding
rice cultivars.