Sentences with phrase «rice breeders all»

«This is a momentous achievement, which will allow AfricaRice to invigorate its effort to reach the common objectives of improving food security and reducing poverty in Africa, through advances in rice research and training of rice breeders,» stated Dr Roy - Macauley, Director General of AfricaRice on the occasion of the signature of the Memorandum of Understanding in late 2016

«This opens the doors for rice breeders to harness genes from the wild relatives of rice, allowing us to improve crops with traits that are preferred by farmers and consumers.

«As the global population is projected to increase by almost 3 billion by 2050, rice breeders urgently need to develop new and sustainable rice varieties with higher yield, healthier grains and reduced environmental footprints.

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

Indonesia's well - institutionalized seed production system, infrastructure, availability of a good number of scientists, and a core group of hybrid rice breeders, make this an ideal time to ramp up hybrid rice research and development efforts,» said Dr. Bruce Tolentino, IRRI's Deputy Director - General.

«As the global population is projected to increase by almost 3 billion by 2050, rice breeders urgently need to develop new and sustainable rice varieties with higher yield, healthier grains and reduced environmental footprints.

Conserving and sharing the genetic diversity of rice helps rice breeders develop new rice varieties suited to local conditions and needs.

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.

You see, as a rice breeder at PhilRice, my primary goals have always been to increase yield and minimize losses.

Jennings had been looking for yellow rice since his earliest days as a rice breeder in Colombia with the Rockefeller Foundation in the 1950s.

What could be so special about harvesting rice, something I started doing years ago and still do today as a rice breeder?

We believe that these will contribute to food security in these areas once the new varieties are released,» said Dr. Tsutomu Ishimaru (in photo above), an IRRI and JIRCAS rice breeder who is now leading the work to develop new varieties with the SPIKE gene.

«Indonesian breeders have been working with IRRI for a long time and many Indonesian breeders were trained at IRRI,» said Dr. Buang Abdullah, rice breeder at the Indonesian Center for Rice Research (ICRR).

Gurdev Khush, a rice breeder at the University of California, Davis, attributes Dar's success to his leadership and for having built a highly motivated team of scientists and a strong management team while «establishing an excellent rapport with the donor community.»

Not exact matches

«This will contaminate our indigenous and farmer - bred rice varieties and prove disastrous to the already volatile rice production in the country» added Marcelino dela Rosa, MASIPAG farmer - breeder and rice farmer based in Nueva Ecija.

Rice is life for us, we must fight for our rice» said Marcelino dela Rosa, MASIPAG farmer - breeder in the municipality of CabanatRice is life for us, we must fight for our rice» said Marcelino dela Rosa, MASIPAG farmer - breeder in the municipality of Cabanatrice» said Marcelino dela Rosa, MASIPAG farmer - breeder in the municipality of Cabanatuan.

«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.

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 qualitRice 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 qualitRice 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 qualitRice 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 qualitRice versions of existing rice varieties that are popular with their local farmers, retaining the same yield, pest resistance, and grain qualitrice varieties that are popular with their local farmers, retaining the same yield, pest resistance, and grain qualities.

IRRI breeders had earlier observed traits related to higher yield potential — such as large panicles, large leaves, a vigorous root system, and thick stems — in several Indonesian tropical japonica rice varieties.

Breeders at IRRI are now using SPIKE to boost the yield potential of leading local rice varieties.

Plant breeders of the Ministry of Agriculture: John Kibanda (coordinator for the National Rice Research Program - KATRIN, Atugonza Bilaro (ARI - Tumbi), D. Deodatus Kisandu (ARI - Uyole), Sophia Kashenge (ARI - KATRIN), and Hezron Tusekelege (Dakawa Research Center).

The start of the first Green Revolution in rice, Zeigler thought back, could have been in July 1963 when IRRI's first breeder, Peter Jennings, found F2 (second - generation) rice plants from a set of 38 crosses involving dwarf rice varieties from Taiwan.

«Importantly, for plant breeders, rice has an extraordinarily diverse genetic resource base that spreads across at least 24 different species of rice.»

And plant breeders are using MAGIC to produce rice varieties that can thrive under every conceivable inhospitable condition.

Breeders at the Indonesian Center for Rice Research (ICRR) are developing Golden Rice varieties, which are suited to local conditions.

The team on the three - year study includes plant pathologists, breeders, crop nutrient managers, economists, weed scientists, entomologists and outreach specialists from Texas, Arkansas and Washington, D.C. Research on organic rice has been in progress at the AgriLife Research facility in Beaumont for at least five years, Zhou said, and results from those studies, along with some from other areas, will be parlayed into the new study.

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.

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.

Breeders later used the same dwarfing strategy with rice to realise similar fantastic yield gains.

This breakthrough is expected to provide opportunities for breeders worldwide in developing better rice varieties that will respond to the changing needs of the farmers and the consumers.

The database will need to be robust enough to handle a monumental amount of data of multiple types, while also being user - friendly so that plant breeders can efficiently make use of the information — a task that is equivalent to «finding a shirt that fits everyone,» said Kevin Palis, a software developer at IRRI, the International Rice Research Institute in Los Baños, Philippines.

Focusing initially on five staple crops — wheat, rice, maize, sorghum and chickpea — the project seeks to empower public plant breeders to use genome - wide approaches to model plant performance in real time using tools that can be shared across diverse species and regions of the world.

GOBii, which stands for Genomic Open - source Breeding Informatics Initiative, seeks to develop a publicly accessible genomics database to enable public sector breeders to accelerate genetic gains initially to support five major staple crops: rice, maize, chickpea, sorghum, and wheat.

CGIAR's Technical Advisory Committee, IRRI should «Continue to campaign for GE as a legitimate breeders» tool, using the «golden» rice as a flagship.

The start of the first Green Revolution in rice, Zeigler thought back, could have been in July 1963 when IRRI's first breeder, Peter Jennings, found F2 (second - generation) rice plants from a set of 38 crosses involving dwarf rice varieties from Taiwan.

Some breeders believe that young female bullmastiffs are easier to train, according to veterinarian and author Dan Rice.

On the advice of my breeder, I fed my first lab Purina Pro Plan chicken & Rice exclusively and she seemed healthy with firm regular poops — but she did have regular yeasty ear infections — which I attributed to her love of swimming.

However none of the «Sport» varieties include shreds and the Sport Active formula is probably the same as the «original» PP chicken and rice which was a favorite of breeders and sportsmen for many years.

According to the company, they consulted with veterinarians, breeders and nutritionist's and used top - quality ingredients like USDA - inspected turkey, lamb, chicken, whole grain rice, vegetables and Grade A dairy products for their pet formulas.

Hi... GSD puppy was on Ranchlands at breeder and dumb me switched him to Blue... cold turkey (disclaimer... have owned several puppies and have done this and never encountered the diarrhea from this) anyway, lots of diarrhea... finally vet put him on Purina EN canned food and some rice... this took about a week and then decided to go back to the Acana except this time it was suggested I give him the Lamb and apple because it had a more appropriate protein content than the ranchlands.

When we adopt him 2 weeks ago, the breeder was feeding him with Kirkland Signature Chicken and Rice Cat Food, but my vet advised me to change for Orijen Cat & Kitten.

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.