Two, maybe three, species have gone extinct over the last two centuries and at least one other is endangered, but the widespread marsh rice rat and O. couesi are not threatened.
One reason that Fe-deficient anaemia is widespread amongst rice-consuming countries is because of the low concentration of Fe in polished rice, like other starchy staples, combined with the inability of poor people to supplement the staple with other foods rich in micronutrients.
The first TMZ video and the fallout from it prompted widespread criticism of Rice and the NFL – in July, after an investigation, the league suspended the player for two regular-season games.
oryzae are the most serious and widespread diseases in rice production.
If this major dormancy QTL on chromosome 12 is widespread in the rice genepool, when it is cloned [22], it may be as informative as the shattering QTL sh4 has been regarding rice domestication.
The widespread cultivation of rice in China necessitated new trends of labor and agricultural techniques.
Alternative splicing is widespread in both rice and Arabidopsis and these species share many common features.
One of the most serious and widespread diseases of rice is blast caused by the ascomycete fungus Magnaporthe grisea.
As a likely result, several of the widespread weeds of rice are among those described as being the world's worst weeds: E. crus-galli, E. colona, Cyperus difformis, C. iria, F. miliacea, Ischaemum rugosum and S. zeylanica (Holm et al. 1977).
Because of the ongoing process of climate change, the rainfall pattern has become more irregular in the cropping season, causing widespread drought in rice-growing areas, which results in severe yield losses [ 3, 4].
