Genetic improvement is crucial for ensuring food security globally. Indeed, plant breeding
has contributed significantly to increasing the productivity of major crops, including rice, over …

Wheat, rice, and maize collectively provide the bulk of energy and protein to the human diet
worldwide. Over the last seven decades, China increased 5.8-fold the aggregated …

A staple food for more than half of the world's population, rice is the third most important
cereal crop after wheat and corn. This book brings together a wealth of information on the …

Breeding green varieties that have high yield potential and require less resource input is the
ideal way to cope with the challenges that human is facing with respect to food security and …

The yield potential of rice (Oryza sativa L.) has experienced two significant growth periods
that coincide with the introduction of semi-dwarfism and the utilization of heterosis. In …

To assess the efficiency of genetic improvement programs, it is essential to assess the
genetic trend in long-term data. The present study estimates the genetic trends for grain …

The adoption of ordinary hybrid rice and super hybrid rice significantly increased the grain
yield under non-limited nitrogen (N) fertilizer condition, however, the information on direct …

The objective of this study was to estimate the results of the upland rice (Oryza sativa L.)
breeding program conducted by the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) …

The cropping area of japonica inbred rice has expanded rapidly since the 1980 s, which
occupies 90% of the total cropping area nowadays in Jiangsu, east China. In this process …

Separation of the influencing factors (climate, soil, variety, management) affecting crop yield
could provide valuable insight into how crop responds to climate change and how crop yield …