Sentence examples for rice breeds from inspiring English sources

Unlike maize, rice breeds true in successive generations, so farmers can retain seeds from one harvest and plant them for the next.

Last year, farmers there were just gearing up to plant a new variety of premium-grade rice, bred over 15 years from two top domestic rice strains and proudly named Ten No Tsubu, or the "Grain From Heaven".

The ghd10 allele represents a useful resource for improving yield-related traits in rice bred for tropical and low-latitude areas.

This can also be used to help breed super-hybrid rice parental lines, and to accelerate the steps required for super-hybrid rice breeding (Deng et al.2010).2010

In 2011, Liangyou 1128 (P88S/R1128), the super-hybrid rice combination bred from the super restorer line R1128 and two-line male sterile line P88S, was identified as single-cropping late rice (Xiangshen rice 2011024) in Hunan Province.

However, Golden Rice is under sustained assault by Greenpeace, which claims that health effects have not been sufficiently addressed, that the rice could breed with and contaminate wild varieties, and that the whole effort is merely a ploy to gain acceptance for GM food in developing countries.

There are almost eighty super-rice varieties, such as Xieyou9308, that have been successfully bred and commercially released to rice farmers since the super-rice breeding program was initiated by the Chinese government in 1996 [ 1].

Seen often on tractor farming rice and soybeans; breeds 60 Thoroughbreds.

Vitamin A-rich rice cannot be bred because it isn't a trait which already occurs in rice.

It speeds along the study of 30,000 to 60,000 protein structures and the selection of rice strains to breed.

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