Sentences with phrase «of rice cultivars»

Almost 2,000 years ago, ancient East Asians lived on a wide variety of rice cultivars including indica.

«We have shown a decrease in number of the rice cultivar in East Asia from 2,000 years ago to the present,» said the authors.

Not exact matches

Dr. Kshirod K. Jena, a principal scientist at IRRI whose research has been on breaking the yield barrier of rice using genomics strategy, and his team discovered that the gene Gn1a - type 3 allele had not been very effective in indica cultivars.

There is a pressing need to look for sustainable ways to accelerate the production, dissemination, and adoption of new rice varieties to meet future demand and prevent cultivar depreciation from the continuous use of farm - saved seeds.

In areas of the world where rice consumption is very high, the rice types (cultivars) with the lowest arsenic content should be identified and used for the preparation of infant foods.

African (O. glaberrima) strains will be used to developed stress - tolerant cultivars and develop new interspecific varieties containing greater and more targeted parts of the African rice genome.

We have pioneered studies demonstrating that low - yielding wild and exotic Oryza species harbor genes and quantitative trait loci (QTL) that can be used to enhance the performance of modern, high - yielding rice cultivars.

[4] Moreover, this claim referred to an early cultivar of golden rice; one bowl of the latest version provides 60 % of RDA for healthy children.

Abstract — We investigated the effects of elevated ozone concentration (E-O3) on CH4 and N2O emission from paddies with two rice cultivars: an inbred Indica cultivar Yangdao 6 (YD6) and a...