date:May 29, 2013
viable option. In fact, the soils in which the crop is grown may be lacking in certain essential minerals, or the minerals are unavailable for uptake by the plant's roots.
To address these issues, the ARS-university team focused attention on three different population groups of ricewith the most diversity represented by 1,643 accessions collected from 114 countries. In this diverse group, they encountered rice accessions whose grains contained up to nine times the amount of minerals normally o