Gene breakthrough could boost rice yields by 20 percent

Wednesday, August 22, 2012 - 13:02 in Biology & Nature

Scientists on Wednesday said they had developed a strain of rice that grows well in soils lacking the nutrient phosphorus, a feat that could boost crop yields for some farmers by as much as a fifth.

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