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Making High-yielding Rice Affordable and Sustainable

Andy Fell — November 20, 2024 - 10:53am

Rice is a staple food crop for more than half the world鈥檚 population, but most farmers don鈥檛 grow high-yielding varieties because the seeds are too expensive. Researchers from the University of California鈥檚海角原创 and Berkeley campuses have identified a potential solution: activating two genes in rice egg cells that trigger their development into embryos without the need for fertilization, which would efficiently create high-yielding clonal strains of rice and other crops.

Genome Editing Used to Create Disease Resistant Rice

Andy Fell — June 15, 2023 - 10:11am

Researchers from the University of California, 海角原创, and an international team of scientists used the genome-editing tool CRISPR-Cas to create disease resistant rice plants, according to a new study published in the journal Nature June 14.

UC 海角原创 Students Breed Beans for Organic Farming

Amy M Quinton — April 11, 2018 - 3:14pm

Breeders at the University of California, 海角原创, have begun field tests on high-yield, disease-resistant organic bean varieties.