This risk is magnified by the simultaneous erosion of indigenous seed stocks. As hybrids dominate acreage, open-pollinated ...

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 ...

A research team has uncovered key molecular insights into how the hybrid rice variety Liangyou 287 (LY287) achieves superior grain quality.

When she ventured into rice farming more than ten years ago, Grace Okello was optimistic that the crop would be the game-changer to transform her economic fortunes. And like the other farmers, she ...

TUGUEGARAO CITY, Cagayan — The Department of Agriculture Regional Field Office 2 (DA-RFO2) and the Bureau of Agricultural Research (BAR) are intensifying efforts to promote hybrid rice production and ...

Scores of African visitors in front of a bronze statue of Yuan Longping, on Thursday planted hybrid rice seedlings in memory of the “father of hybrid rice’’ The delegates to the Second Forum on ...

a, Traditional labor-intensive (left) and the next-generation mechanized (right) production of F1 hybrid seeds are compared. In a traditional hybrid seed production process, the male sterile line ...