An 87-year-old scientist may have just unlocked the secret to growing rice in saltwater

Reference: https://www.businessinsider.com/yuan-longping-chinese-rice-scientist-growing-saltwater-rice-2017-11 Yuan Longping, an 87-year-old Chinese scientist, has spent his life working to feed a world hungry for rice. Now he's wading into saltier territory. Longping is developing a new high-yield strain…

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Stress and disease tolerance

Reference: http://www.knowledgebank.irri.org/ricebreedingcourse/Breeding_for_salt_tolerance.htm Breeding for salt tolerance in riceDescribe the challenges in rice breeding for salt toleranceDescribe the morphological, physiological and biochemical symptoms under salt stressDescribe the mechanisms of salt-toleranceDescribe the…

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