New project aims to increase food security in Asia through satellite-based information
Twenty participants from different organizations gathered at IRRI headquarters on June 4-7, 2012 for a workshop on the new project called Remote sensing-based information and insurance for crops in emerging economies, also known as RIICE. Read more
News
IRRI and PhilRice hold workshop on crop health data analysis
IRRI's Epidemiology and Crop Health Group held the Review workshop and training on statistical analysis of crop health data in the Philippines, for 36 participants from IRRI, the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice), the Department of Agriculture, and state universities. Read more
News
IRRI holds community health education session and medical mission in Los Baños
To reduce the incidence of common medical problems in IRRI's host communities of Los Baños and Bay, IRRI, through its Host Country and Community Relations Office, conducted another community health education and medical mission for the lakeside barangay of Bayog, Los Baños, on 1 June 2012. Read more
Event
Araw ng Kalayaan 2012 in IRRI
V. Bruce J. Tolentino, IRRI deputy director general for communications and partnerships, addressed IRRI staff on 11 June 2012 during the Institute's commemoration of Philippine Independence (Araw ng Kalayaan). His message centered on how national freedom and hard-fought rights tend to be taken for granted when a nation such as the Philippines has enjoyed these for a while, and that commemoration of Araw ng Kalayaan must be a reminder of the hard road that freedom had taken. View full text, in Filipino
IRRI Seminar
Root traits behind major-effect drought-yield QTLs in rice
By Amelia Henry, scientist, drought physiology, Crop and Environmental Sciences Division, IRRI
1315-1415 H, Thursday, 14 June 2012, Havener Auditorium, IRRI
Abstract:
Rice root growth encompasses a remarkable genetic diversity in terms of growth patterns, architecture, and environmental adaptations. Root/drought research at IRRI has been ongoing since the 1970s, with a long-term focus on root growth at depth and large nodal root diameter as drought resistance traits. After direct selection for yield during the past decade that is now approaching impact at the farm level, we are seeing that root traits are indeed involved in improved yield under drought. Surprisingly, traits other than deep root growth and large diameter nodal roots have been observed. This presentation will summarize the progress we have made in identifying root traits behind major-effect drought-yield QTLs in genotypes developed at IRRI.
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IRRI Gold Award for 2010 IRRI Annual Report
IRRI's 2010 Annual Report has won the 2012 Outstanding Professional Skill Award in the Publishing category of the Critique and Awards Program of the Association for Communications Excellence (ACE). The award, which is the IRRI annual report's third Gold Award in the last 4 years, will be presented during ACE's annual international meeting in Annapolis, Maryland, on 11-14 June.
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