# Rice Breeding Breakthrough to Feed Billions

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/rice-breeding-breakthrough-to-feed-billions/
- Published: 2023-01-19T09:30:11-06:00
- Author: Curated by John Wysocki

Photo caption: A rice field in Bengal, India. Rice is a staple crop for billions of people, but it has proved difficult to bring high-yield hybrid rice strains to farmers. UC Davis scientists have developed a method to propagate hybrid rice as cloned seeds, reducing costs for growers and allowing them to save improved seed from season to season. Photo credit: Getty Images. Article by Andy Fell. UC Davis News – January 10, 2023. An international team has succeeded in propagating a commercial hybrid rice strain as a clone through seeds with 95% efficiency. This could lower the cost of hybrid rice seed, making high-yielding, disease resistant rice strains available to low-income farmers worldwide. The work was published Dec. 27 in Nature Communications. […] Click here to view original web page at www.ucdavis.edu