As rain fell, Musa Darboe, a Gambian farmer, stood before the grave of the late Chinese scientist Yuan Longping in Changsha, ...

LAHORE: After decades of stagnation, Pakistan’s cotton sector is poised for a turnaround as hybrid cotton has been allowed ...

As rain fell, Musa Darboe, a farmer from The Gambia, stood before the grave of late Chinese scientist Yuan Longping in ...

Because of hybrid seed technology, rice production has increased manifold, he says. For example, the per acre yield of Sindh’s rice farmers from the conventional, non-basmati varieties ranged ...

Mustafa said the hybrid rice project aligns with Brunei's plans as outlined in Wawasan Brunei 2035 (Brunei Vision 2035). Introduced in 2007, Wawasan Brunei 2035 is a long-term development plan that ...

Farmers are showing interest to use more of their lands to cultivate hybrid rice, encouraged by an increase in domestic market prices, said seed sellers yesterday. March 29, 2023 March 29, 2023 ...

Hybrid rice has been planted in a total area of 600 million hectares across China, increasing the rice yield by more than an estimated 800 million metric tons. Gambia used to rely heavily on imported ...

image: In hybrid rice breeding, sexual reproduction causes heterosis decay due to meiotic recombination. The Fix4 synthetic apomixis system, established entirely via genome editing technology ...

After Irene Nonenjanahary's first hybrid rice harvest brought in a bumper yield last year, she is more confident than ever. "We used to rely on the weather," she said. "Now we rely on technology." ...

Hybrid sterility and reproductive isolation represent critical challenges for rice breeding programmes, as these biological barriers restrict the successful fusion of diverse genetic backgrounds.

From the rice terraces of the Cordilleras to the flood plains of Mindoro and the paddies of Mindanao, this weary lament echoes across the Philippine countryside.