News tagged with rice
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Arizona researchers to sequence West African rice strain
A $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation will allow University of Arizona researchers to unlock the genetic code of West African cultivated rice - and along the way to gain knowledge that could help commercial ...
Jul 13, 2009 |
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Successful initial safety tests for genetically-modified rice that fights allergy
In a first-of-its-kind advance toward the next generation of genetically modified foods -- intended to improve consumers’ health -- researchers in Japan are reporting that a new transgenic rice designed to ...
Jun 24, 2009 |
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Red yeast rice may lower cholesterol
Two years ago, Chuck Jones of Yardley, Pa., had high cholesterol, but his medicine caused severe leg cramps that routinely ruined his sleep.
Jun 22, 2009 |
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New discovery could help feed millions (w/Video)
When scientist Loretta Mayer set out to alleviate diseases associated with menopause, she didn't realize her work could lead to addressing world hunger and feeding hundreds of millions of people.
May 27, 2009 |
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Golden rice an effective source of vitamin A
The beta-carotene in so-called "Golden Rice" converts to vitamin A in humans, according to researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and Tufts University in an article that appears in the current issue of the American Jo ...
May 13, 2009 |
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Researchers examine bacterial rice diseases, search for genetic solutions
As a major food source for much of the world, rice is one of the most important plants on earth.
Apr 01, 2009 |
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200,000 rice mutants available worldwide for scientific investigation
Scientists across the world are building an extensive repository of genetically modified rice plants in the hope of understanding the function of the approximately 57,000 genes that make up the genome of Oryza sativa. The ...
Mar 04, 2009 |
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Discovery could lead to better rice yields
(PhysOrg.com) -- Building on plant virus research started more than 20 years ago, a biologist at Washington University in St. Louis and his a colleague at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis ...
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Feb 10, 2009 |
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Gene's past could improve the future of rice
(PhysOrg.com) -- In an effort to improve rice varieties, a Purdue University researcher was part of a team that traced the evolutionary history of domesticated rice by using a process that focuses on one gene.
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Jan 23, 2009 |
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New, higher-yielding rice plant could ease threat of hunger for poor
An ambitious project to re-engineer photosynthesis in rice, led by the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) through a global consortium of scientists, has received a grant of US$11 million over 3 years from the Bill ...
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Jan 21, 2009 |
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Researchers Create an Epic Genetic Atlas of Rice
(PhysOrg.com) -- Yale researchers have published a cellular atlas of genetic activity in rice, documenting with unprecedented detail how and when genes are turned off and on within cells of a living organism.
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Jan 05, 2009 |
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