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