Hybrid rice—bred from two different parents—greatly contributes to food security. However, the process of hybrid seed production is labor intensive, and fully mechanized hybrid rice breeding is ...

The food security of Bangladesh largely depends on the production of rice because it satisfies most of the national calorie ...

An international team has succeeded in propagating a commercial hybrid rice strain as a clone through seeds with 95% efficiency. This could lower the cost of hybrid rice seed, making high-yielding, ...

Rice is one of the most important grains in the food supply network. The humble cereal is an essential part of the diet of around half of the world's population. However, it is labor intensive and a ...

The development of synthetic apomixis enables the fixation of heterosis, which is a breakthrough that promises to transform conventional hybrid breeding strategies and trigger a new wave of green ...

The first locally-bred hybrid rice seed will be available to farmers from next week. The Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Services (Kephis) has licensed Afritec Seeds Ltd to produce and distribute the ...

DECADES of virology research that yielded the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine and identified the virus as a primary cause ...

After the Civil War and the end of slavery, it gradually became uneconomic to produce rice in South Carolina. The rice plantations, mills and traders that once brought so much wealth into Charleston ...