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Scientists also hope to breed rice with higher amounts of zinc, preventing stunting and fatalities from diarrhea.

Hundreds now breed rice on their own farms and together have identified 18 drought tolerant rice varieties, 12 flood tolerant, 20 salt water tolerant, and 23 pest and disease resistant rice varieties.

It will help breed rice genotypes with higher level of salt tolerance beyond the existing salt tolerant varieties.

As illustrated above, it is necessary to breed rice cultivars with resistance to BS, BSR and BGR.

The next step, says Ashikari, is to use this new genetic knowledge to breed rice that is both high-yielding and flood-resistant.

The government of China approved biosafety certificates for Bt rice in 2009 (James 2009), and locally bred rice varieties with Bt transgenes could be widely grown within the next few years.

Previous attempts to breed cultivated rice with resistance to the fungus produced poor-tasting, low-quality rice.

It may breed around rice paddies and other fields, or human habitations, provided that there is enough cover and suitable nesting sites.

The application of these results is expected to provide an opportunity to breed elite rice varieties that process both yield and root heterosis.

The types of genes involved and the geographic and genetic distribution of alleles will allow scientists to better understand our ancestors and breed better rice for our descendents.

It thus may be possible to breed new rice cultivars that accumulate low concentrations of Cd in grain but with greater simultaneous accumulation of Cd in the aerial parts for phytoextraction and soil remediation.