AfricaRice makes progress towards developing rice with robust resistance to the African disease called Rice Yellow Mottle Virus and colloquially known as the “AIDS of rice”!
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The Efficacy of a Program Promoting Rice Self-Sufficiency in Ghana during a Period of Neoliberalism*
Determinants of diffusion and adoption of improved technology for rice parboiling in Benin
Breakthrough in the resistance to the “AIDS of rice
‘NIL 130’ was named “best rice variety” among seven being evaluated by a farmers’ cooperative in Gagnoa, Côte d’Ivoire. NIL 130 is a ‘near-isogenic line’ derived from ‘elite’ rice variety IR64 by the introduction of a gene for res…
‘Nature’ reports discovery of rice phosphorus uptake gene
Congratulations to Sigrid Heuer, Rico Gamuyao, and all other team members for their Nature publication discovering the phosphorus uptake gene PSTOL1.