Sentences with phrase «grain quality»

We conduct research and training to improve rice for better grain quality and higher yield, resistance to pests and diseases, tolerance of environmental stresses, and less farm input requirement.

Although high - yielding varieties are grown in these areas, continual progress is necessary to incorporate disease and insect resistance and improved grain quality into rice varieties.

Although high - yielding varieties are grown in these areas, continual progress is necessary to incorporate disease and insect resistance and improved grain quality into rice varieties.

The gene can improve plant architecture without altering grain quality or growth periods.

Although the first generation of hybrid rice varieties released had higher yields, they also tended to have inferior grain quality and inadequate disease and insect resistance.

Doing a French toast is easy, you just need whole grain quality bread and soak it in the mixture of grass - fed organic milk, organic eggs, vanilla, and cinnamon.

Farmers rank these varieties higher in grain quality of unmilled, milled, and cooked rice than previously popular varieties.

«It is important that new and improved rice varieties also possess superior grain quality that add value through meeting domestic and export market expectations to further improve the lives of farmers who rely on rice for their livelihood and sustenance,» he added.

High grain quality is a crucial requirement.

Kokare, A.; Legzdina, L. and Lammerts van Bueren, Edith T. (2010) Spring barley grain quality changes in conventional and organic growing conditions.

Rice scientists have since overcome these problems and the current generation of hybrid rice has excellent grain quality and better resistance to pests and diseases — equivalent to or better than their inbred counterparts.

A number of GR2E introgression lines with acceptable agronomic, yield and grain quality traits, and having a significant concentration of carotenoids in the milled rice as measured two months post-harvest, were selected for further evaluation in MLTs in 2017.

«Ninety five percent of the aromatic rice analyzed shared the same version of the major gene for fragrance found in Thai Jasmine rice,» says Dr. Melissa Fitzgerald, grain quality researcher at IRRI.

Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) is a fungal disease that affects worldwide wheat production due to dramatic yield loss, and reduced grain quality from toxins that make harvests unsuitable for consumption.

But these crops tend to have low yields and poor grain quality, says geneticist Pamela Ronald of the University of California, Davis, and breeding these plants without knowing what genes to extract is time consuming and inefficient.

The USDA standards set grade limits and define grain quality, but reputable pet food manufacturers often use even more rigorous commercial specifications regarding grain damage or contamination, as well as nutritional standards [29].

Initially offering basic «forward contracts» to guarantee future prices to buyers and sellers, the first futures contracts were introduced by the CBOT about two decades later and included formal specifications for grain quality, and quantity, and delivery.

Researchers in Greece were able to continuously select from an F1 generation of hybrid rice and produce a variety that was equally high - yielding but of better grain quality and, most importantly, that farmers could save from year to year without problem (see box on opposite page).

IRRI develops ways to add economic, nutritional, and environmental value to rice by reducing postharvest losses, improving grain quality of new rice varieties, improving value - chain linkages, investigating uses of husks and straw to produce bioenergy, cut carbon emissions, and increase carbon sequestration.

IRRI develops ways to add economic, nutritional, and environmental value to rice by reducing postharvest losses, improving grain quality of new rice varieties, improving value - chain linkages, investigating uses of husks and straw to produce bioenergy, cut carbon emissions, and increase carbon sequestration.

Help scientists of participating countries access to a diverse source of germplasm and broaden the genetic base of temperate rice for higher yield, superior grain quality and resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses

Two more submergence - tolerant rice varieties with medium duration and good grain quality, BINA dhan 11 and BINA dhan 12, are expected to be released in Bangladesh by June 2013.

Higher night temperatures during the ripening stage also decrease rice yield and grain quality.

Our key target is to produce hybrid rice with consistently high - yield heterosis (hybrid vigor), good grain quality, tolerance to key environmental stresses, multiple resistances to insect pests and diseases, and high seed production yield.

Both yield and grain quality are adversely affected.

The Temperate Rice Research Consortium (TRRC) recognized the need for a «consortium approach» to solve issues on temperate rice improvement including both biotic and abiotic stresses, yield potential, grain quality and nutrition, and water and nutrient management.

Especially good grain quality and resistance to diseases, nematodes, and insect pests.

We are seeing Russia improving its grain quality and displacing Australian grain out of the Middle East and proving to be very competitive in to Asia.»

The issues on temperate rice improvement include both biotic and abiotic stresses, yield potential, grain quality and nutrition, and water and nutrient management.

Breeders at the Philippine Department of Agriculture - Philippine Rice Research Institute (DA - PhilRice), the Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI), and the Indonesian Center for Rice Research (ICRR) are developing Golden Rice versions of existing rice varieties that are popular with their local farmers, retaining the same yield, pest resistance, and grain qualities.

From their initial areas of collaboration, Vietnam and IRRI are expanding their partnership to include rice production in the upland ecosystem, environmental issues, and grain quality.

Taken together, these rice varieties are the raw materials that rice scientists and nutrition researchers use to improve the grain quality and nutritional aspects of rice, which has been part of the human diet for thousands of years.

In this light, IRRI develops elite inbred rice lines with higher yield potential, multiple resistance to insects and diseases, and superior grain quality.

Leading experts and researchers in rice breeding and genetics, genomics, genetic resources and evolution, pathology, and grain quality will be facilitating sessions and delivering talks, to solve the myriad of problems that the rice production sector is currently facing.

The results from the CFTs confirmed there are no unintended effects of the GR2E event on agronomic performance, yield, and grain quality.

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

«It is our vision for Burundi to become a leading regional hub for excellent, high yielding, rice varieties that also have good grain quality.»

Our research into hybrid rice now focuses on producing hybrid rice with consistently high - yield heterosis (hybrid vigor), good grain quality, tolerance to key environmental stresses, multiple resistances to insect pests and diseases, and high seed production yield.

The Agriculture Minister and the rest of the Bangladesh delegation went around the institute's facilities and interacted with IRRI staff to learn more about the development and deployment of climate change - resilient rice varieties, remote - sensing and drone technology, improved natural resource management practices, grain quality and nutrition, and capacity - building programs.

Nestlé is also backing rural women by committing to increase local sourcing through its Grains Quality Improvement Project (GQIP).

Especially good grain quality and resistance to diseases, nematodes, and insect pests.

Guzmán and hundreds of other grain quality and health specialists will meet for the 4th Latin American Cereals Conference and the 13th International Gluten Workshop, organized jointly by CIMMYT and the International Association for Cereal Science and Technology (ICC) in Mexico City from 11 to 17 March 2018.

Though hybrid rice produces a significant yield advantage over conventional rice, its grain quality is not at par with inbred varieties.

This has rice breeders paying more attention to hybrid rice's grain quality.

Research priorities in the IRRI - China collaboration include China's national program on breeding super hybrid rice, improving the grain quality of inbred rice lines, and addressing the challenges of climate change effects in farming through climate - smart technologies.