Latin American rice breeding gets a boost from genomic tools
Key words of the passage: rice; America; yield; market; breedingHow do you like your rice? Sticky, fluffy, brown, or white? These qualities, in addition to grain length, width, appearance, and other traits, are hugely important predictors of rice sales and consumption worldwide. And region matters. Rice preferences in Latin America, for example, are very different from those in West Africa, Japan,...