Palpa, Oct. 22 -- Farmers in Palpa district are facing losses just as they prepare to harvest their rice crops, with a fungal ...

Chinese scientists have achieved what they describe as a breakthrough in hybrid rice breeding, developing a system that clones the seeds of high-yield hybrid rice with greater than 99 percent ...

Farmers work at a rice field in Central Luzon, the Philippines, on March 17, 2026. (Xinhua/Guo Yige) MANILA, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) ...

Here’s a type of fusion food you don’t see every day: fluffy, steamed grains of rice, chock-full of beef cells. It sounds Frankenstein. But the hybrid plant-animal concoction didn’t require any ...

Apomixis is a form of asexual reproduction that allows hybrid rice to propagate by seeds. Recently, a collaborative research team led by Professor Li Jiayang from the Institute of Genetics and ...

In a study published in Nature Plants, Prof. Li Yunhai from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (IGDB) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Profs. Zhu Xudong and Wang Yuexing from ...

(ECNS) — China is expanding hybrid rice research and seed production overseas to improve yields and support local cultivation ...

To date, Chinese hybrid rice has been planted on a cumulative area of 90,000 hectares in Madagascar, with an average yield of about 7.5 tonnes per hectare, two to three times that of traditional local ...

Hybrid rice—bred from two different parents—greatly contributes to food security. However, the process of hybrid seed production is labor intensive, and fully mechanized hybrid rice breeding is ...

TUGUEGARAO CITY, Cagayan (PIA) — The Department of Agriculture (DA) Region 2 is distributing hybrid rice seeds and other farm ...