Much work remains to be done to distinguish and quantify the
contribution of both kinds of genetic traits, and their degree of possible combination — yet, success in this should lead to high -
yielding, sheath blight - unfavorable and partially resistant
rice crops.
John E. Sheehy, International
Rice Research Institute, e-mail to Janet Larsen, Earth Policy Institute, 1 October 2002; David Lobell and Gregory Asner, «Climate and Management
Contributions to Recent Trends in U.S. Agricultural
Yields,» Science, vol.