Sentences with phrase «staple rice crop»

Research scientists are coming to the aid of 300 million people along the River Ganges who face a hungry future because their staple rice crop is threatened by climate change.

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Rice, a staple crop for many people, is missing two proteins necessary to make this vitamin.

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Rice is a major Louisiana crop and a kitchen staple.

And on the world - food security front, ARS» Stuttgart center is closing in on genes that regulate rice's uptake and storage of iron, thiamine and other important vitamins and minerals — a pursuit that could bolster the nutritional value of this cereal grain crop as a staple food for roughly half the world's population.

Rice is the staple food crop for more than half of the world's population, and is especially important in Asia, where more than 60 % of the world's 1 billion poorest live.

Rice is a staple food for almost half of the global population and is one of the most important crops in Asia.

«It's important to incorporate C4 in rice because rice grows in places where other crops such as maize do not grow and because rice is the staple food of more than half the world, including many people who live in poverty.»

Rice is the most important food crop in the developing world and the staple of more than half of the world's population.

Civil society in Asia and GMO watch groups have been wary of Golden Rice as rice is not just the staple food for one third of the world's population, it is also a political cRice as rice is not just the staple food for one third of the world's population, it is also a political crice is not just the staple food for one third of the world's population, it is also a political crop.

Climate change could shrink the mineral and protein content of wheat, rice and other staple crops, mounting evidence suggests.

Studies show that rice, wheat and other staple crops could lose protein and minerals, putting more people at risk of hunger worldwide.

IFPRI's fellows in the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research system are developing, for example, drought - tolerant or heat - resistant varieties of staple crops such as wheat and rice.

Aside from its work on grasses, CIAT has focused on breeding improved varieties of beans, rice and cassava — staple crops that are important to the food security of the rural poor.

Wheat and rice being improved was good for India and China, but it was largely irrelevant for the staple cassava or maize crops in Africa.

As part of an initiative launched in Washington DC earlier this month, researchers in 12 countries have started to hunt for varieties of the top five staple crops — rice, wheat, corn, cassava and beans — that might grow better in poor soils, as well as providing added trace nutrients for the people who eat them.

India alone has at least 10 domestically developed GM crops in its research pipeline — including GM versions of cauliflower, eggplant and okra, in addition to staples like rice — and China has invested heavily in the research.

In all food staple crops; such as corn, soybean, rice, wheat, barley, sorghum and canola, the eventual harvest of seed is the ultimate measurement of productivity.

The group has received $ 18.5 million in funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation through Cornell to create a breeding database for five major staple crops — wheat, rice, maize, sorghum and chickpea — but ultimately, they hope to develop a system that will work for any crop.

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.

Leading the charge of GR2.0 and 3.0 will be a crop of vibrant and intelligent young scientists in league with IRRI through the Global Rice Science Partnership (GRiSP) and spread out across Asia, Africa, and Latin America, «many of whom are attending their first International Rice Congress now,» said Zeigler, himself a plant pathologist who started young working on various crop staples.

Nearly 80 percent of the world's food begins as seeds, including such staple crops as corn, wheat and rice.

Rice is still a staple crop in South Asia, and we can only imagine the harm it continues to generate (along with run - off of Agent Orange).

By breeding staple crops such as wheat, rice, maize, and soy to be more pest - and weed - resistant, more nutrient - rich and high - yielding, they hope to offer more nutrition per acre of farmed land.

My final night in Cusco, a meal at Chicha brought together this Peruvian - Chinese fusion within one bowl: Andean chaufa (with Peruvian staple crop quinoa standing in for rice) topped with quail eggs and roasted guinea pig.

Take a walk around Hawa Sawah's rice fields and observe the Balinese tending to their staple crop, you'll feel the connection instantly.

Bangladesh's Farmers Already Switching to Climate - Resistant Crops The effects of climate change may seem distant for many TreeHugger readers (they aren't, but that's another story...), but for farmers in Bangladesh they are very much immediate — and they are already taking action to adapt, switching to climate - resistant varieties of rice, wheat, and other staple cCrops The effects of climate change may seem distant for many TreeHugger readers (they aren't, but that's another story...), but for farmers in Bangladesh they are very much immediate — and they are already taking action to adapt, switching to climate - resistant varieties of rice, wheat, and other staple cropscrops.

But for delivering sheer calories, especially in our staple crops of wheat, rice, maize, soybeans and so on, conventional farms have the advantage right now.

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A warmer world with more carbon dioxide will produce more plant growth, but at reduced nutritional value for staple crops like potatoes, rice, and corn.

According to a new study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, ground - level ozone, the main component of smog, damages about 6.7 million tons of India's staple crops, including wheat and rice, in a single [continue reading...]

SciDev.net: China and India, the world's two most populous countries, are beset by stagnation in the production of staples like rice, wheat, soybean and maize (corn), says a new study on crop yield growth.

Observed data and many studies indicate that a warming climate has a negative effect to crop production, generally reduce yields of staple cereals such as wheat, rice and maize, which, however, differs between regions and latitudes.

So too will be the people who starve as global warming diminishes crop yields of the world's three staples — corn, rice, and wheat.

«Rice is the most consumed staple crop in the world and maize is close behind in rank as the third most important cereal crop.

Cheap, low - maintenance farming can be adopted elsewhere, Oglio thinks, and, while it may not produce thousands of acres upon acres of staple crops like rice, wheat, and corn (at least in the same place), it can help feed the world's poor without reliance on and oversight by corporations.

The first Green Revolution developed improved varieties of wheat and rice at the exclusion of African staple root crops and tropical maize.

That's a problem, because rice is one of the most important staple crops on Earth — more than 3.5 billion people depend on rice for at least 20 percent of their daily caloric intake.

Traditional growing of rice in flooded fields is bad for the staple crop's future quality and produces vast amounts of methane greenhouse gas.

These are incorporated based upon prior work using (1) the surface ozone response to methane emissions changes from two global composition - climate models, (2) the impact of ozone on yields of four staple crops, wheat, maize, soy and rice, based on the methodology of Van Dingenen et al. (2009), and (3) their valuation using world market prices, as described in Shindell et al. (2012a).