Breeding and improvement

Wild ancestors may hold the key to more nutritious rice grains

Wild ancestors may hold the key to more nutritious rice grains

September 22, 2025

By Rhowell Tiozon and Glenn Concepcion For the nearly 9,000 years since its domestication, rice has been...

Inside the global effort to defend rice from major diseases

August 18, 2025

By Van Schepler-Luu & Myrtel Anne Valenzuela Rice diseases such as bacterial blight and blast are no...

IRRI’s Connected Breeding sparks a new era in crop innovation

July 31, 2025

Connected Breeding, a new breeding strategy by IRRI, is set to revolutionize rice breeding by unlocking complex...

IRRI Scientists Introduces New Breeding Approach to Harness Genomic Selection in Challenging Environments

May 15, 2025

by Waseem Hussain, Mahender Anumalla, Margaret Catolos, Joie Ramos, Ma. Teresa Sta. Cruz, and Myrtel Valenzuela IRRI scientists are changing how rice...

A Quarter Century Since the SUB1A Gene: New Flood-Tolerant Rice and Feeding Millions

May 15, 2025

By Waseem Hussain, Mahender Anumalla, Margaret Catolos,  Joie Ramos, Ma Teresa Sta. Cruz, and Myrtel Valenzuela In a landmark study published...

Safeguarding Plant Health for Sustainable Rice

May 13, 2025

by Christian Dohrmann Plant health is vital for both environmental and human well-being, as plants supply oxygen...

IRRI Trait Development Links Upstream Research with Next-Gen Varieties

April 24, 2025

by John Damien Platten, Amelia Henry, Myrtel Valenzuela In a recent Marschner Review in the journal Plant...

Breeding and improvement

A new blueprint for crop breeding: IRRI’s OneRice Framework forges a faster, more efficient path to global food security

Wild ancestors may hold the key to more nutritious rice grains

Machine learning algorithms are helping scientists analyze and predict grain quality and nutritional content for rice breeding

Inside the global effort to defend rice from major diseases

IRRI’s Connected Breeding sparks a new era in crop innovation

IRRI scientists introduce Speed Breeding 3.0 to accelerate climate-resilient crop innovation with OneCGIAR

IRRI Scientists Introduces New Breeding Approach to Harness Genomic Selection in Challenging Environments

A Quarter Century Since the SUB1A Gene: New Flood-Tolerant Rice and Feeding Millions

Safeguarding Plant Health for Sustainable Rice

IRRI Trait Development Links Upstream Research with Next-Gen Varieties

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