In recent days, Chinese agricultural technician Yang Xiugang has been receiving messages from Muhammad Usman, one of his apprentices in Nigeria, asking for farming advice. Over the past few years, he ...

The development of synthetic apomixis enables the fixation of heterosis, which is a breakthrough that promises to transform conventional hybrid breeding strategies and trigger a new wave of green ...

THE Department of Agriculture (DA) on Monday said it will start providing hybrid rice seeds and inorganic fertilizers to eligible farmers under its National Rice Program. The program is intended to ...

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 ...

Hybrid sterility and reproductive isolation represent critical challenges for rice breeding programmes, as these biological barriers restrict the successful fusion of diverse genetic backgrounds. By ...

(a) Categorization of metabolites discovered in rice grain. 1 to 20 means amino acids and derivatives, the unknown metabolites, organic acids, benzene and substituted derivatives, lipids, flavonoids, ...