BSF project "Co-Development and transfer of Rice Technologies"

Climate change causes extreme temperatures and affects water availability which in turn affects rice production, thus threatening global food security. Rice landraces may contain important alleles with tolerances to abiotic stress (e.g. drought, salinity, flooding) and/or biotic stress (e.g. blast, bacterial leaf blight, brown plant hopper infestation). This Benefit-sharing Fund project (third cycle) aims to discover new sources of alleles to improve resilience to climate change and ensure quality rice production in Indonesia, Malaysia, Lao PDR and Philippines.