By Glenn Concepcion In 1966, the release of a newly bred rice variety known as IR8 changed the course...
IR8
The 2010 study examined the decreasing grain yield of IR8, which was the first modern rice variety...
In the 1950s, Asia is on the brink of famine. Food is scarce and millions of people...
The most significant achievement of the year was the thorough testing and the eventual naming of a...
A former agronomist at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) looks back at his long and productive...
Self-financed farmer cooperatives are a viable strategy to increase irrigated rice area to attain a national yield...
It was 50 years ago this 28 November that the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) released a...
Dr. Robert Chandler was appointed by the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations to be IRRI’s first director general...
Celebrating 50 years of IR8: U.S. President Johnson makes historic visit to IRRI with stirring words
Celebrating 50 years of IR8: U.S. President Johnson makes historic visit to IRRI with stirring words
This year, 2016, IRRI is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the release of IR8, the first semidwarf...
A quantitative trait locus, or QTL, is an incredibly small section of the DNA that, in the...
