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 ...

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 ...

China's Honglian hybrid rice has shown promising results in Pakistan, with the three varieties H13, H14, and H15 achieving yields of 11.3 tons per hectare, 12.3 tons per hectare, and 10.8 tons per ...

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 ...

Foodies of the future may be dining on beefed-up rice. A new lab-grown meat product merges rice grains with cow cells, scientists report February 14 in Matter. The rice acts as a scaffold that ...

Two decades ago, most seeds in Bangladesh came from farmers’ own reserves or the state-run Bangladesh Agricultural Development Corporation (BADC). Today, that picture has changed dramatically ...

The Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) has set a record target of producing 23,08,712 tons of clean Boro rice ...

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has announced a significant relief for the state’s farmers and rice mill operators by extending a 1 percent rebate on non-hybrid rice, directly benefiting ...

a, Traditional labor-intensive (left) and the next-generation mechanized (right) production of F1 hybrid seeds are compared. In a traditional hybrid seed production process, the male sterile line ...