Sentences with phrase «develop rice plants»

I do research on insect pest and disease resistance and drought tolerance to develop rice plants that are sturdy under unfavorable conditions so that their grain yield is not drastically reduced.

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As a plant pathologist with USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Rice Research Unit in Beaumont, Texas, Toni Marchetti oversaw a new program in 1972 to develop new cultivars that better resisted costly diseases like rice blRice Research Unit in Beaumont, Texas, Toni Marchetti oversaw a new program in 1972 to develop new cultivars that better resisted costly diseases like rice blrice blast.

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

«Rice is the staple food for millions across the developing world, so finding a way to double the amount each plant produces would help to feed many more of the very poorest.

«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.

Alfonso shared that Golden Rice was invented by Professor Ingo Potrykus, then of the Institute for Plant Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, and Professor Peter Beyer of the University of Freiburg, Germany, and is a gift to resource - poor farmers in developing countries by these inventors.

This, after seeing a rice variety, PSB Rc18 - sub1 (a flood tolerant rice developed at IRRI), tested in 2009, now planted on a 100 - ha rice farm in Bohol.

Although brown rice ingredients have been its stars, the company is developing new types of innovative plant - based protein ingredients.

Developing the famous Golden Rice, for example, required so - called humanitarian exemptions to plant patents.

To address other micronutrient deficiencies, researchers in the Laboratory of Plant Biotechnology of Professor Gruissem at ETH Zurich and in other countries also developed rice varieties with increased iron levels in the rice and wheat grains, for example.

The evidence of the success of early rice farmers on the vast wetlands near the Guaporé River in Rondônia state, Brazil, could help modern day plant breeders develop rice crops which are less susceptible to disease and more adaptable to the effects of climate change than the Asian varieties.

Understanding drought - responsive signaling and the molecular and biochemical mechanisms of drought tolerance in model plants such as Arabidopsis and rice provide new insight into how to develop drought - tolerant crop plants through conventional breeding or biotechnological approaches.»

Unlike present - day rice plants, the new variety, which was developed at the IRRI's research station in the Philippines, produces seed heads on every shoot.

PLANT breeders have developed a variety of rice that has the potential to yield a staggering 25 per cent more than today's best, the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) announced this wrice that has the potential to yield a staggering 25 per cent more than today's best, the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) announced this wRice Research Institute (IRRI) announced this week.

Together with our Cornell colleague Dr Qi Sun, we also developed the Plant Proteomics Database PPDB to provide an integrated resource for experimentally identified proteins in the plant species Arabidopsis, maize and Plant Proteomics Database PPDB to provide an integrated resource for experimentally identified proteins in the plant species Arabidopsis, maize and plant species Arabidopsis, maize and rice.

To sum up, contrary to Dr. Gregers disingenuous assertions, a low - fat plant - based diet with regular white rice consumption actually cures diabetes, and the research shows that even among Americans who consumed 5 + servings of white (arsenic - contaminated US - grown) rice a week actually had a lower relative risk of developing the most common forms of cancer.

With 9 billion people to feed by 2050 and with crops facing increased stress from rising temperatures and drought, plant breeders must marshal all of the available crop diversity to continuously develop new varieties of wheat, maize, rice, and other foods.

Methane emissions derive mostly from landfills, agriculture (particularly rice farming), livestock, and natural gas and coal extraction, while soot, otherwise called «black carbon», results from the incomplete combustion of fossil fuels and derives primarily from primitive cook stoves used throughout much of the developing world, as well as diesel engines and coal - burning power plants.