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 ...

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 ...

Chinese agricultural technician Yang Xiugang (1st R) investigates the impact of local climate on crops in the fields in Zhouping Village of Cengong County in southwest China's Guizhou Province, March ...

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 ...

Thermo-sensitive genic male sterility 5 (tms5) is a widely used thermo-sensitive genic male sterile (TGMS) line for two-line hybrid rice production. Critical sterility-inducing temperature (CSIT) acts ...

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 ...

A brand new lab-grown meat-rice hybrid could offer a "world of possibilities," scientists have said. In a new study published in the journal Matter, Korean scientists detailed the alternative protein ...

THE Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) is taking a significant step toward modernizing rice farming by upgrading its digital farming tools. As part of the Scaling Modern and Adaptive Rice ...