Sentences with phrase «rice grain yield»

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When cooked using the absorption method, medium - grain rice yields a tender, starchy, slightly creamy kernel that's ideal for saucy rice dishes like this one.
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.
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 managemRice 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 managemrice improvement including both biotic and abiotic stresses, yield potential, grain quality and nutrition, and water and nutrient management.
I do research on insect pest and disease resistance and drought tolerance to develop rice plants that are sturdy under unfavorable conditions so that their grain yield is not drastically reduced.
White basmati or long - grain rice will yield the best results, but if you don't have either on hand, quinoa is a good substitute.
The issues on temperate rice improvement include both biotic and abiotic stresses, yield potential, grain quality and nutrition, and water and nutrient management.
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
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.
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.
In this light, IRRI develops elite inbred rice lines with higher yield potential, multiple resistance to insects and diseases, and superior 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.
C4 rice could yield up to 50 % more grain than currently possible from existing rice varieties.
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.»
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.
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.
«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.
Working with in - country partners, IRRI develops advanced rice varieties that yield more grain and better withstand pests and disease as well as flooding, drought, and other harmful effects of climate change.
Arborio is my rice of choice for risotto because arborio is a short grain rice and it yields a creamy risotto with a slight bite to each grain.
He persuaded developing countries to adopt this new seed — and later, an improved rice — ultimately tripling global cereal grain yield.
«Using it, we were able to improve resistance to drought - related stress, and increased the grain yield of rice in dry field conditions.
Scientists have long sought such a stiff - leafed rice plant, believing that it would raise grain yields.
One measure of yield, the dry weight of the rice grains, shot up from 16 grams per plant to 24 grams in the transgenic variety, a massive increase.
A team of researchers at the University of Delaware has found that incorporating rice husk to soil can decrease toxic inorganic arsenic levels in rice grain by 25 to 50 percent without negatively affecting yield.
A team of investigators led by Motoyuki Ashikari of Nagoya University and Hitoshi Sakakibara of the Plant Science Center in Yokohama, Japan, analyzed the rice genome and identified several regions of DNA tied to improved grain yields.
Erect leaves caused by brassinosteroid deficiency increase biomass production and grain yield in rice
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.
«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.
A staple grain for over 8,000 years, the yield of amaranth is similar to maize or rice.
The young doctor is so thrilled about genetically engineering a strain of Basmati rice that yields 22 % more grains per acre that she spontaneously breaks into song on Fifth Avenue, right in front of the iconic Flatiron building.
Have yields of major grains, such as rice, corn, and wheat, started to plateau after decades of growth?
Among the ironies here was the impetus such political work imparted to blocking the yield of so - called golden rice, a nutritionally enhanced GM grain that commonalty fitness lawyers hailed for the gift it could produce to combating sicknesss.
And the end result of these several enhancements was a CO2 - induced increase in both rice and maize grain yield
One key to the threefold expansion in the world grain harvest since 1950 was the rapid adoption in some developing countries of high - yielding wheats and rices (originally developed in Japan) and hybrid corn (from the United States).
The government quickly adopted several key production - boosting measures, including a 40 percent rise in the grain support price paid to farmers, an increase in agricultural credit, and heavy investment in developing higher - yielding strains of wheat, rice, and corn, their leading crops.
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