An ambitious project plans to create an online catalog of rice genes in which breeders can choose...
genetics
In India, self-help groups have made a tremendous impact on the lives of poor women in rural...
A team of scientists from the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and the University of California Riverside...
Science-based improvements in agricultural technology have contributed significantly—across two Green Revolutions—to alleviating hunger and poverty in most...
In the new era of genomic research, “genome editing” technology has been developed, consisting of new tools...
The Young Researchers' Lunch hosted Glenn Gregorio, the outgoing deputy head of IRRI's Plant Breeding, Genetics and Biotechnology...
It has been estimated that, for every 1 billion people added to the world’s population, 100 million...
A seed of rice that could transform the developing world saved Asha Ram Pal’s farm in the...
Before scientists ever started crossing different rice plants, farmers had inadvertently been at it for centuries. By...
