High-yielding varieties developed in the 1960s and 1970s at the International Rice
Research Institute (IRRI) and elsewhere benefited farmers and the public, ultimately …

Cereal crops are significant contributors to global diets. As climate change disrupts weather
patterns and wreaks havoc on crops, the need for generating stress‐resilient, high‐yielding …

The wild species of the genus Oryza serve as a virtually untapped reservoir of genetic
diversity that can be used to improve the world's most important food crop—rice. The genus …

Abstract Worldwide, more than 3.5 billion people depend on rice for more than 20% of their
daily calories. Global rice demand is estimated to rise from 723 million tons in 2015 to 763 …

For a holistic approach in developing the stress-resilient crops of the 21 st century, modern
genomic biology will need to re-envision the underappreciated phenomena in classical …

Salt stress affects about 25% of the 4.4 million ha of irrigated and lowland systems for rice
cultivation in West Africa (WA). A major quantitative trait locus (QTLs) on chromosome 1 …

Iron (Fe) toxicity is a major constraint in lowland rice. Because of its higher rusticity and
adaptability to adverse soil conditions, the African rice Oryza glaberrima constitutes a new …

To identify microsatellite markers associated with root traits for drought tolerance in rice
(Oryza sativa L.) a study was conducted at Department of Plant Physiology, College of …

Water stress is a major abiotic stress limiting the rice production and yield stability in rainfed
conditions and getting worse with the predicted global climatic change. A Backcross inbred …

Africa contains a huge diversity of both cultivated and wild rice species. The region has eight
species representing six of the ten known genome types. Genetic resources of these species …