New High-Yielding Perennial Rice Sees Sustainability Success Catalyzed by Global Collaboration and Knowledge Sharing Approach
A study in the journal Nature Sustainability reports that a new high-yielding, long-lived perennial rice with significant environmental, economic, and social sustainability impacts is now being grown in Southeast Asia and parts of Africa.
- A study in the journal Nature Sustainability reports that a new high-yielding, long-lived perennial rice with significant environmental, economic, and social sustainability impacts is now being grown in Southeast Asia and parts of Africa.
- Researchers in China's Yunnan Province developed perennial rice in a relatively short two-decade timeframe, achieving comparable yields to annual rice varieties.
- They were supported with scientific expertise and seed funding from Kansas-based nonprofit The Land Institute and a global network of researchers.
- "Besides perennial rice, our work on wide hybrid crosses of annual wheat and sorghum with their perennial relatives show promise.