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 ...

This risk is magnified by the simultaneous erosion of indigenous seed stocks. As hybrids dominate acreage, open-pollinated ...

TUGUEGARAO CITY, Cagayan — The Department of Agriculture Regional Field Office 2 (DA-RFO2) and the Bureau of Agricultural Research (BAR) are intensifying efforts to promote hybrid rice production and ...

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 ...

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 ...