Genome editing in rice: recent advances, challenges, and future implications

R Mishra, RK Joshi, K Zhao - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is the major food source for more than three billion people of the
world. In the last few decades, the classical, mutational, and molecular breeding approaches …

Integrated insect pest management techniques for rice

MJ Hajjar, N Ahmed, KA Alhudaib, H Ullah - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
In modern agriculture, climate change, environmental degradation, and natural resource
depletion constitute one of the major potential issues for sustainable crop production and …

Cognitive impairment in schizophrenia: relationships with cortical thickness in fronto-temporal regions, and dissociability from symptom severity

E Alkan, G Davies, SL Evans - npj Schizophrenia, 2021 - nature.com
Cognitive impairments are a core and persistent characteristic of schizophrenia with
implications for daily functioning. These show only limited response to antipsychotic …

Genome editing technologies for rice improvement: progress, prospects, and safety concerns

K Zafar, KEM Sedeek, GS Rao, MZ Khan… - Frontiers in Genome …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Rice (Oryza sativa) is an important staple food crop worldwide; to meet the growing
nutritional requirements of the increasing population in the face of climate change …

Insect pest incidence with the system of rice intensification: results of a multi-location study and a meta-analysis

P Chintalapati, S Rathod, N Repalle, NRG Varma… - Agronomy, 2023 - mdpi.com
The System of Rice Intensification (SRI) developed in Madagascar has spread to many parts
of the world, including India. This study assessing insect pest prevalence on rice grown with …

Enhanced diversity of aquatic macroinvertebrate predators and biological pest control but reduced crop establishment in organic rice farming

N Pérez-Méndez, M Martínez-Eixarch, R Llevat… - Agriculture, Ecosystems …, 2023 - Elsevier
Organic farming has been adopted as the main alternative to reduce the environmental
impact of intensive agriculture by banning the use of synthetic inputs and bolstering key …

[HTML][HTML] Bats and rice: Quantifying the role of insectivorous bats as agricultural pest suppressors in rice fields

C Tuneu-Corral, X Puig-Montserrat, C Flaquer… - Ecosystem Services, 2024 - Elsevier
Rice represents the main staple food for more than half of the world's population, playing an
essential role in food security and economic growth. One of the major pests affecting this …

[PDF][PDF] Biological control of lepidopteran pests in rice: a multi-nation case study from Asia

D Babendreier, M Hou, R Tang, F Zhang… - Journal of integrated …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We provide a case study where Integrated Pest Management (IPM) for rice production
systems has been introduced to the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS). Funded by the …

Increasing rice grain yield under biotic stresses: Mutagenesis, transgenics and genomics approaches

A Raina, S Khan - Rice Research for Quality Improvement: Genomics and …, 2020 - Springer
Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is the most important source of staple food to a major portion of human
population. The production of rice is reduced by several kinds of biotic stresses. The main …

Impact assessment of biological control-based integrated pest management in rice and maize in the greater Mekong subregion

D Babendreier, M Wan, R Tang, R Gu, J Tambo, Z Liu… - Insects, 2019 - mdpi.com
The impact and sustainability of two interventions that have been formulated to introduce
integrated pest management (IPM) into rice and maize crops in Southwestern China, Laos …