date:Dec 04, 2013
Scientists from the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and Japan announced on Tuesday the discovery of a rice gene that has the potential to increase the production of modern long-grain indica rice varieties.
The SPIKE gene was found to increase the output of indica rice varieties--considered the world's most widely grown types of rice-- by 13 to 36 percent.
We discovered the gene, SPIKE, in an Indonesian tropical japonica rice variety, said rice breeder Dr. Nobuya Kobayasahi of the