New Research Progress on Dissecting Yield-Associated Loci in Super Hybrid Rice
August 13th,2013
With the expansion of world population and shrinkage of arable land, demand of rice yield improvement has been on the rise. Hybrid rice developed in China is contributing greatly to the world’s food production. The pioneer super hybrid rice developed by c...
Responses of super rice to different planting methods for grain yield and nitrogen-u...
August 29th,2014
Up to 2012, 96 commercially released super rice varieties were grown on over 80 million ha in China. However, there was little increase in terms of large-scale rice production due to unreasonable agronomic practices. Therefore, understanding the yield res...
QTL qLSCHL4 increases yield of indica super rice 93-11
June 25th,2014
The basic premise of high yield in rice is to improve leaf photosynthetic efficiency and coordinate the source-sink relationship in rice plants.
New research progresses of rice resistance to the whitebacked planthopper
June 24th,2014
The whitebacked planthopper (WBPH), Sogatella furcifera Horváth, is a serious rice pest in Asia. It damages the plants by sucking sap from the phloem and transmitting viruses, which leads to reductions in plant height, number of productive tillers, filled...
CNRRI's new rice machine transplanting technology wins popularity
May 06th,2014
A new machine transplanting technology of pot-mat seedling, developed by China National Rice Research Institute (CNRRI) three years ago in 2011, wins great popularity in the rice planting areas mainly in China.