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 ...

An international team has succeeded in propagating a commercial hybrid rice strain as a clone through seeds with 95% efficiency. This could lower the cost of hybrid rice seed, making high-yielding, ...

After more than 20 years of theorizing about it, scientists have tweaked a hybrid variety of rice so that some of the plants produce cloned seeds. No plant sex necessary. The feat, described December ...

THE Department of Agriculture (DA) on Monday said it will start providing hybrid rice seeds and inorganic fertilizers to eligible farmers under its National Rice Program. The program is intended to ...

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 rice field in Bengal, India. Rice is a staple crop for billions of people, but it has proved difficult to bring high-yield hybrid rice strainers to farmers. UC Davis scientists have developed a ...