Sentences with phrase «bred rice variety»

Macassane, a new IRRI - bred rice variety released in Mozambique in 2011, also has improved resistance to baterial leaf blight, which causes yield losses across the country.

Makassane, a new IRRI - bred rice variety released in Mozambique in 2011, has improved resistance to blast - a major disease of the country.

«This will contaminate our indigenous and farmer - bred rice varieties and prove disastrous to the already volatile rice production in the country» added Marcelino dela Rosa, MASIPAG farmer - breeder and rice farmer based in Nueva Ecija.

A recent impact assessment study showed that Filipino farmers have gained an additional Php2, 300 (US$ 52) per hectare from using improved IRRI - bred rice varieties.

Filipino rice farmers are earning an additional Php 2,184 per hectare annually by using IRRI - bred rice varieties, and the country overall benefits by Php 8.5 billion a year.

In 2011, two IRRI - bred rice varieties, Vuninzara (IR77713) and Gwizumwimbu (IR79511), which were developed especially for Burundi, were released.

IRRI and Indonesia's partnership covers breeding rice varieties with high yield potential, grain quality, and resistance to pests.

Higher farmer income: Filipino rice farmers are earning an additional Php 2,184 per hectare annually by using IRRI - bred rice varieties, and the country overall benefits by Php 8.5 billion a year.

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Fortunately, recent breakthroughs in plant breeding have helped us develop rice varieties that can tolerate and even thrive under these tough conditions.

Vast rice - growing regions in India, Bangladesh, and other countries, which are submerged during rainy season and rendered useless for rice production, have been made productive since the SUB1 gene that makes rice flood - tolerant was discovered and bred into popular existing rice varieties.

With new tools to breed healthier rice, including Golden Rice, our challenge is to develop varieties that are hardy, high - yielding, and nutritirice, including Golden Rice, our challenge is to develop varieties that are hardy, high - yielding, and nutritiRice, our challenge is to develop varieties that are hardy, high - yielding, and nutritious.

IRRI's support for partners includes initial breeding of the Golden Rice trait into selected varieties, which involves laboratory work, greenhouse tests, and some preliminary field evaluation.

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Of the 8 IRRI - bred varieties, 4 are high - yielding lines from the International Network for Genetic Evaluation of Rice.

«I am delighted with our success in breeding a Golden Rice version of Bangladesh's most popular rice variety, BRRI dhan29, which we hope will make a substantial contribution to reducing vitamin A deficiency across the country,» said Dr. Alamgir Hossain, principal plant breeder at BRice version of Bangladesh's most popular rice variety, BRRI dhan29, which we hope will make a substantial contribution to reducing vitamin A deficiency across the country,» said Dr. Alamgir Hossain, principal plant breeder at Brice variety, BRRI dhan29, which we hope will make a substantial contribution to reducing vitamin A deficiency across the country,» said Dr. Alamgir Hossain, principal plant breeder at BRRI.

The new rice was bred by successfully crossing (or mating) two different rice parents — the exotic wild rice species Oryza coarctata and rice variety IR56 of the cultivated rice species O. sativa.

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.

This year, IRRI established a new and relevant rice breeding factory, deciphered the information found in 3,000 sequenced rice genomes, helped in marketing the Philippines» unique indigenous «heirloom» rice varieties to the outside world, distributed climate - smart rice varieties to reduce Asian farmers» risks, and celebrated 150 consecutive knowledge - filled cropping seasons of the Long - Term Continuous Cropping Experiment.

We use new approaches for increasing yield potential, such as marker - assisted breeding to develop the next generation of rice varieties suited for irrigated environments in Asia.

This dataset contains millions of genomic sequences from a diverse set of rice varieties that, when combined with phenotyping observations, gene expression, and other information, provides an important step in establishing gene - trait associations, building predictive models, and applying these models to breeding.

However, surveys of rice germplasm around the world failed to identify any variety that contain significant amounts of beta carotene, so conventional breeding programs could not be used to develop Golden Rice.&rarice germplasm around the world failed to identify any variety that contain significant amounts of beta carotene, so conventional breeding programs could not be used to develop Golden Rice.&raRice.»

«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.

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

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

We develop genetically superior and elite rice breeding lines and hybrid varieties.

Dr. Abdullah also noted that a number of Indonesian rice varieties have been sent to IRRI to breed high - yielding varieties, for example, one of the parents of «miracle rice» — also called IR8 and renowned for its superior yields that helped avert famine in the 1960s — was an Indonesian rice variety called Peta.

IRRI has facilitated the release more than a thousand IRRI - bred and improved rice varieties in 78 countries since its establishment in 1960.

Since then, 77 high - yielding rice varieties have been released as a result of rice breeding collaboration, including many that are currently grown by farmers for the domestic market and some that are grown for export.

A 2011 report from the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research found that between 1985 and 2009, IRRI varieties and breeding lines contributed, on average, 50 % of the annual yield increases in southern Vietnam and the use of new varieties increased Vietnamese rice farmers» income by US$ 127 per hectare (in 2009 values) per year during the study period.

«Overall, IRRI has released around a thousand improved rice varieties across 78 countries since its establishment in 1960,» said Eero Nissila, head of IRRI's breeding division.

«Rice genetics is all about understanding the genes of rice so that we can develop new and improved rice varieties to help farmers produce more rice, with fewer resources and despite challenges like climate change,» said event convener, Dr. Eero Nissila, head of the Plant Breeding, Genetics, and Biotechnology Division at IRice genetics is all about understanding the genes of rice so that we can develop new and improved rice varieties to help farmers produce more rice, with fewer resources and despite challenges like climate change,» said event convener, Dr. Eero Nissila, head of the Plant Breeding, Genetics, and Biotechnology Division at Irice so that we can develop new and improved rice varieties to help farmers produce more rice, with fewer resources and despite challenges like climate change,» said event convener, Dr. Eero Nissila, head of the Plant Breeding, Genetics, and Biotechnology Division at Irice varieties to help farmers produce more rice, with fewer resources and despite challenges like climate change,» said event convener, Dr. Eero Nissila, head of the Plant Breeding, Genetics, and Biotechnology Division at Irice, with fewer resources and despite challenges like climate change,» said event convener, Dr. Eero Nissila, head of the Plant Breeding, Genetics, and Biotechnology Division at IRRI.

Genetic modification is a modern breeding method that is used at IRRI to investigate and understand the diversity and function of rice genes and to develop and deliver GM rice varieties.

«Through this partnership with IRRI, ACI is building on its commitment to develop a strong rice breeding program and to introduce new elite varieties in Bangladesh,» said IRRI Director General Matthew Morell.

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.

The group of rice (the aus - type) that Kasalath is part of is also the source of the submergence tolerance gene, which IRRI has used to breed submergence - tolerant (Sub1) rice varieties that are being widely adopted across Asia.

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.

Once specific genes associated with beneficial traits are identified, they can be more efficiently transferred into new rice varieties 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 is exploring whether a recently discovered gene that affects gelatinization temperature could allow rice varieties with lower gelatinization temperature to be bred.

Farmers and agricultural stakeholders chose the two rice varieties bred by the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), called IR77713 and IR79511, over the country's locally grown varieties — V14, V18, Watt, and Rukaramu — because they produce more rice and taste and look betrice varieties bred by the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), called IR77713 and IR79511, over the country's locally grown varieties — V14, V18, Watt, and Rukaramu — because they produce more rice and taste and look betRice Research Institute (IRRI), called IR77713 and IR79511, over the country's locally grown varieties — V14, V18, Watt, and Rukaramu — because they produce more rice and taste and look betrice and taste and look better.

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

Over a 25 - year period, Filipino farmers have gained an additional US$ 52 (Php 2,300) per hectare from using improved rice varieties derived from the breeding work of IRRI.

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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.

The synergy of the partnership resulted in advances in developing disease - and insect - resistant varieties suited to various rice environments, developing and releasing hybrid rice varieties bred through government and private sector programs, streamlining rice production practices, and improving postharvest technologies for improved sustainability and productivity.

Aside from its work on grasses, CIAT has focused on breeding improved varieties of beans, rice and cassava — staple crops that are important to the food security of the rural poor.

There's a similar development in India, where agriculture scientist GV Ramanjaneyulu of the Centre for Sustainable Agriculture in Hyderabad has organized an open - source network that has bred and shared eight varieties of rice, wheat, and pulses.

«It's a big drag,» said Susan McCouch, a professor of plant breeding and genetics at Cornell University who specializes in finding wild varieties of rice for breeding.

With molecular backcrossing, Mackill, Ronald and their many colleagues were then able to breed this overexpressed gene into rice already popular in India, such as the legendary Swarna variety.