African Rice Sequenced: A Genome To Feed The World
Monday, July 28, 2014 - 18:20
in Biology & Nature
Credit: University of Arizona Researchers have sequenced the complete genome of Oryza glaberrima (African rice), which will enhance scientists' and agriculturalists' understanding of the growing patterns of African rice, as well as enable the development of new rice varieties that are better able to cope with increasing environmental stressors to help solve global hunger challenges. read more