Every year, farmers grow rice on more than 11 million hectares, harvesting nearly 38 million tonnes of rice over three growing seasons. But there’s a new challenge threatening our rice -- heat.
Can rice beat the heat?
14 July 2026, 16:58 PM
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Mohammad Mizanur Rahaman
Rice Plants at 8:30am. The plant with the regular EMF3 gene on the left shows no flowering, while the plant on the right, carrying the rare emf3-1d alleles, has already started flowering.
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