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Climate change: implications for the yield of edible rice.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2013
Zhao Xiangqian, Fitzgerald Melissa
Abstract excerpt
Global warming affects not only rice yield but also grain quality. A better understanding of the effects of climate factors on rice quality provides information for new breeding strategies to develop varieties of rice adapted to a changing world. Chalkiness is a key trait of physical quality, and along with head rice yield, is used to determine the price of rice in all markets. In the present study, we show that...
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