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Ripe rice does not need to be cooked
Indian agricultural experts claim they have just created a variety of rice that humans can eat after soaking in water, without cooking ...
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Successful breeding of 'diving' rice varieties under water
Japanese scientists have just created rice that is capable of producing
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Identifying genes that increase rice yields
Chinese scientists have identified a single gene that is critical to rice production as well as the height and duration of flowering of rice. This can be considered a de…
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Plant nutrient-rich dry rice instead of wet rice
A new method of growing rice saves billions of cubic meters of water while ensuring food security and has been successfully tested. These are nutritious and dry seedling…
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New rice variety: Less water, higher yield
An international team of scientists has produced a kind of rice that can grow better and use water more efficiently than other rice varieties. Professor Andy Pereira of…
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Create fragrant rice varieties that grow well on alum contaminated soil
Based on the aromatic Basmati rice varieties originating in Pakistan, Ho Chi Minh City Nuclear Center staff, Vietnam Atomic Energy Institute have created aromatic rice l…
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Japan: Testing biofuel production from rice
Japan's Ministry of Agriculture has just announced a project to produce biofuels from inedible components of rice to avoid price increases.
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Bangladesh created 93 water-saving rice varieties
Bangladesh agricultural scientists have bred 93 new varieties of rice that can save 33-50% of water during cultivation. This is a common achievement of experts from the…
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Japan: Creating iron-rich rice varieties with high productivity
According to the US PNAS magazine, Japanese researchers have succeeded in creating an iron-rich rice variety by adding an enzyme and increasing the yield of plants by gr…
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Rice carries human genes
Biotechnology company Ventria Bioscience (USA) has just released a rice genome with a part of the genome that is a human gene. According to Ventrina, they are waiting fo…
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New flood-resistant rice varieties can help farmers and the environment
Researchers at the University of California, Davis in the US and the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), based in the Philippines, have isolated a gene from a…
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Yellow dwarf virus, stunted wilt on rice: New disease ...
Rice stunt disease in rice is a new disease, due to the mixing of 3 types of virus such as Dwarf rice grass, Dendrocalamus stunt disease caused by brown planthopper and…
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Taiwan produces 7-color rice
With the goal of competition and attracting domestic consumers, Taiwanese scientists have developed a new type of rice that promises not only delicious but also deliciou…
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The southern plain meets brown pests
Leaf-dwarf and yellow dwarf diseases are devastating rice in the Southeast and the Mekong River Delta, but localities are very slow in delineating the enclosure.
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For the first time decoding the woody gene
American black poplar has become the third plant, after rice and a grass called Arabidopsis thaliana, to be secreted about the genetic structure. This success can be