Rice Breeding Breakthrough to Feed Billions (IMAGE)

University of California - Davis

Rice Breeding Breakthrough to Feed Billions

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Imtiyaz Khanday and Venkatesan Sundaresan photographed with cloned rice plants in a green house on the UC Davis campus. Their work has led to a breakthrough in apomixis, propagating a hybrid rice variety as clonal seeds.

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Karin Higgins/UC Davis

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