Sentences with phrase «of rice breeding»

In a recent study, the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) looked at the economic impact and value of rice breeding work of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) between 1985 and 2009 across Southeast Asia.

An Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) study looked at the impact and value of rice breeding work of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) between 1985 and 2009 in three key rice - growing countries: Indonesia, Vietnam, and the Philippines.

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.

Here at IRRI, only about 5 % of our rice breeding work is GM, which is only used when all other breeding methods have been exhausted and when it offers a potentially very high humanitarian, environmental, or productivity benefit.

In September, the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) released a report looking at the impact and value of rice breeding work of the IRRI between 1985 and 2009 in three key rice - growing countries: Indonesia, Vietnam, and the Philippines.

In September, the Australian Center for International Agriculture (ACIAR) released a report looking at the impact and value of rice breeding work of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) between 1985 and 2009 in three key rice - growing countries: Indonesia, Vietnam, and the Philippines.

In September, the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) released a report looking at the impact and value of rice breeding work of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) between 1985 and 2009 in three key rice - growing countries: Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam.

Not exact matches

«A lack of genetic variation in rice has hindered efforts by conventional breeding programs to address iron levels.

Marchetti retired from ARS in 2001, leaving behind not only a legacy of excellence in rice breeding and plant pathology, but also a prized collection of 1,000 rice blast specimens he isolated from Texas, Arkansas, and other rice - growing states.

Farmer trainor Mamerto «Pay Merto» Pado of Camarines Sur shared insights on the current situation of agriculture in the Philippines, farmer - led advocacy and rice breeding.

From the perspective of the International Rice Research Institute this will present a major new challenge to how we organize our breeding programs, the nature of the products we produce, and perhaps most importantly, how we relate to our partners.

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.

Of the 8 IRRI - bred varieties, 4 are high - yielding lines from the International Network for Genetic Evaluation of RicOf the 8 IRRI - bred varieties, 4 are high - yielding lines from the International Network for Genetic Evaluation of Ricof 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 most poplar hybrid rice parents used in Asian countries outside of China have been bred by IRRI.

Golden Rice was bred using a combination of genetic modification and other breeding methods.

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.

These breeding efforts form part of a bigger research initiative under the Temperate Rice Research Consortium.

«Rice is an incredibly special crop providing more than half of the planet with food every day,» said Dr. Eero Nissilä, head of IRRI's Plant Breeding, Genetics, and Biotechnology Division and convenor of RG7.

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.»

Mutual protection of elite breeding lines marked a renewed collaboration between the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) and the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), signed at the PhilRice headquarters at the Science City of Muñoz, Nueva Ecija, on 3 April 2014.

This work draws together conservation of different types of rice, diversity analysis, gene discovery, and dissemination of advanced genetic and breeding resources.

«Using a new approach of combining molecular identification of the SPIKE gene and conventional breeding, we have developed rice, with the SPIKE gene, that has higher yield when compared with an equivalent rice without the gene,» Dr. Kobayashi said.

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

Breeding to enhance yield potential of rice at IRRI: the ideotype approach Development and use of hybrid rice technology to increase rice productivity in the tropics

Data access and analysis tools are being made available for the 3K RGP dataset through the International Rice Informatics Consortium (IRIC), which promotes collaboration in bioinformatics analysis of rice data and provides computational tools to facilitate rice improvement via discovery of new gene - trait associations and accelerated breedRice Informatics Consortium (IRIC), which promotes collaboration in bioinformatics analysis of rice data and provides computational tools to facilitate rice improvement via discovery of new gene - trait associations and accelerated breedrice data and provides computational tools to facilitate rice improvement via discovery of new gene - trait associations and accelerated breedrice improvement via discovery of new gene - trait associations and accelerated breeding.

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.

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.

Using genetic modification in this way can improve the accuracy of identifying genes of interest and speed up the breeding process, even though the end - product is not GM rice.

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.

IRRI is using breeding and modern biotechnology to develop rice that contains more beta - carotene (a source of vitamin A), iron, and zinc.

Rice bred to perform well in the toughest conditions where the poorest farmers grow rice is a step away from reaching farmers thanks to a major project led by the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and the International Rice Research Institute (IRRice bred to perform well in the toughest conditions where the poorest farmers grow rice is a step away from reaching farmers thanks to a major project led by the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and the International Rice Research Institute (IRrice is a step away from reaching farmers thanks to a major project led by the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and the International Rice Research Institute (IRRice Research Institute (IRRI).

IRRI is also sharing rice breeding lines with Burundi that are being tested at a number of IRRI field sites around the country.

Hangzhou City, People's Republic of China (21 September 2017)- Agriculture research heads of 14 Asian countries supported the ASEAN +3 Rice Breeding and Genetics Initiative - a long - term regional investment and collaboration initiative in rice breeding aimed to address regional food security and national rice sector strategRice Breeding and Genetics Initiative - a long - term regional investment and collaboration initiative in rice breeding aimed to address regional food security and national rice sector strBreeding and Genetics Initiative - a long - term regional investment and collaboration initiative in rice breeding aimed to address regional food security and national rice sector strategrice breeding aimed to address regional food security and national rice sector strbreeding aimed to address regional food security and national rice sector strategrice sector strategies.

«Any organization, including LSU, can legally obtain seed of aromatic rice for breeding purposes from many different sources, including the International Rice Genebank,» says Dr. Ruaraidh Sackville Hamilton, head of the International Rice Genebrice for breeding purposes from many different sources, including the International Rice Genebank,» says Dr. Ruaraidh Sackville Hamilton, head of the International Rice GenebRice Genebank,» says Dr. Ruaraidh Sackville Hamilton, head of the International Rice GenebRice Genebank.

Peanut butter with an umami kick of liquid aminos and nutritional yeast meet crunchy corn or rice cubes for a highly snack - able blend, no matter your breed.

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.

A new breed of agricultural extension and development officers recently completed a 5 - month capacity - building course called «Enabling the AgRiDOC: a new breed of rice extensionists» and are now ready to serve rice - based farming communities in the country.

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.

The hub will help strengthen the rice breeding programs of rice - growing countries in South Asia and Africa.