Monday 28 September 2015

​​​​Hybrid Rice ​R&D at IRRI

An IRRI Seminar

By Fangming Xie
Senior Scientist​-Hybrid Rice R&D
Plant Breeding

​​1 October 2015
1:15-2:15 p.m.
Havener Auditorium
IRRI


Abstract:

​​​Hybrid rice is grown on about 20 million hectares annually in the world, with about 6 million ha in the countries outside of China. IRRI started the Hybrid Rice Development Consortium in 2008 to strengthen public and private partnership and support hybrid rice R&D at IRRI. What have we achieved so far and what challenges are seen ahead? Hybrid rice R&D at IRRI will be reviewed and future priorities will be discussed in this seminar.


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