In the new era of genomic research, “genome editing” technology has been developed, consisting of new tools...
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Rice farmers in India, Bangladesh, and Nepal will have faster access to newly developed high-yielding climate-smart varieties....
The road toward global food security is not without challenges. The population will balloon to 9 billion...
As pointed out in this issue’s Grain of Truth by eminent economists from the Food and Agriculture Organization...
Traditional rice varieties encompass a huge range of potentially valuable genes. These can be used to develop...
Rice is important to the people and the economy of Nepal, where agriculture employs around 80% of...
Since the first type of rice was sequenced in 2004, more than 3,000 additional ones have been...
In 2000, Science journal’s “Breakthrough of the Year” was full-genome sequencing— highlighting the accomplishment of decoding a...
Although there are chemicals developed to control this disease, none of them are completely effective at eliminating...
It all started in 1984 in Los Baños, Laguna, in the Philippines. Scientists had begun to develop...
