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2009-08-25 | permalink
Cross-breeding could create non-GE rice varieties that can survive flooding and fungi
Japanese research teams have pinpointed the genes in hardy varieties of rice that help the plants to outgrow rising paddy-field waters and fend off fungal infections. Having these genes in more vulnerable rice varieties could save billions of dollars and feed millions more people.
The two papers are ”very welcome at a time of increasingly difficult challenges to rice growing”, says Michael Jackson, a plant physiologist at the University of Bristol, UK.
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2009-08-25 | permalink
Cross-breeding could create non-GE rice varieties that can survive flooding and fungi
Japanese research teams have pinpointed the genes in hardy varieties of rice that help the plants to outgrow rising paddy-field waters and fend off fungal infections. Having these genes in more vulnerable rice varieties could save billions of dollars and feed millions more people.
The two papers are ”very welcome at a time of increasingly difficult challenges to rice growing”, says Michael Jackson, a plant physiologist at the University of Bristol, UK.
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