Susan McCouch is building a new rice breeding strategy with wild strains

As challenges to the world's rice crop grow, professor Susan McCouch, graduate student Janelle Jung, and other researchers at Cornell are collaborating across disciplines to ensure this vital crop's future. Wild rice strains, the ancestors of cultivated rice, hold the key to ensuring that this staple crop, which provides more than a fifth of calories consumed across the globe, will thrive in a changing environment.

[@MrWhitestrawberry]

Very nice video; well explained. I'm a little bit wondering what the word new in the title is referring to. I suspect it means:" not phenotypically visible". Before the molecular techniques became available breeders were also improving complex traits by crossing with wild relatives and studying for instance the yield of their progeny. Nice plants!

[@russsherwood5978]

where can/might i be able to purchase wild and or domestic seed from to grow on my homestead? thank you for the info and video

[@MohammadAli-qx6rw]

From sindh pakistan .2019 rice crop is fail . garmination ,growth,is good but crop donot make rice .pls notice and guide ,if possible,,,,,