date:Jul 28, 2014
puts (ie less water, fertilisers and pesticides), said the rice research paper.
Rice will have a key role in helping to solve the problem of how to feed nine billion people. African rice, scientific name Oryza glaberrima, is more drought resistant than the much more common Asian species (Oryza sativa). In unravelling its genomic signature, an international team of geneticists established that African rice was domesticated from a wild species in a region next to the Niger river about 3,000 year