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littlepeaks
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Developing New Varieties of Rice
This article presents a good background on breeding new ricee varieties. Some of the selection criteria considered in developing the best combination of traits include seedling vigor, maturity, height, tillering (number and uniformity), panicle size, completeness of panicle exertion, grain shape and appearance, disease resistance, and overall plant appearance. A list of principle rice varieties released from the Louisiana State University (LSU) AGCenter Rice Research Station is listed in Table 1 . A copy of this entire edition of Louisiana Agriculture Magazine is also available in pdf format. This edition also commemorates the first century of operation of the LSU Rice Research Station. |
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16 Dec 2009 BBC "Bangladesh tests new rice strains"
Researchers in Bangladesh are in the final stage of testing three new rice varieties which they say will be able to survive the country's annual floods. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8415391.stm |
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Sekerob
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I liked that recent news of rice growing snorkels, but how fast... they'll be needing them: http://climate4you.com/SeaTemperatures.htm#Global%20sea%20level
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A note on Patents, as an aid to reading and interpreting the articles.
You cannot patent a naturally occurring hybrid, but you can patient a genetic technique that results in a manmade gene. As this project researches possible hybrids that either could or do occur naturally the results cannot be patented, as is. So people will be able to benefit almost directly from the results. |
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Ad interim, good news for rice production, but how this pans out over the longer term for this genetically modified rice type...don't know. Larger root system helps to get its phosphorus needs from poor soils. Something gotta give though in minerals balance and nutrients needed over the longer term, and of course the seedlings will have to be bought each year and the manufacturer is likely going to make it sterile [or is this a too dark view?]
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19336653 snip Commenting on the research in Nature, Prof Leon Kochian from Cornell University, US, said phosphorus was "probably the most limiting mineral nutrient for plants". About half of the world's agriculural land is deficient in the substance. This does not mean the element is absent, but that it is locked up in forms from which plant roots are poor at liberating it. Usually, farmers combat the issue by deploying fertilisers containing phosphate compounds and other essential nutrients. But there are concerns that the supply will be difficult to maintain in the long term, as it comes principally from rock types that are not very common. More work for sustainable and clean water at the run-off side. |
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