Rice Plants That Grow As Clones From Seed (IMAGE)

University of California - Davis

Rice Plants That Grow As Clones From Seed

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Postdoc Imtiyaz Khanday and Professor Venkatesan Sundaresan with cloned rice plants in a UC Davis green house, December 2018. Khanday, Sundaresan and colleagues have solved the problem of propagating cloned, hybrid plants from seed -- a long-sought discovery with big implications for global agriculture. It could make it easier for the world's poorest farmers to grow high-yielding, disease-resistant or climate-tolerant crops and save their seeds for future use.

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