Facilitating rice research through enabling technologies
IRRI News: Capitalizing on genomics, phenomics, and biotechnological disciplines we aim to fast-track breeding progress through big data-driven analytical techniques. We facilitate the adoption of the best technologies related to agronomy and agri-food science components in order to improve rice products and byproducts. We aim to strengthen partnerships, technology transfer, and capacity building for rice-based research-driven innovation. By sourcing, testing, developing, and translating enabling technologies, we support rice innovation to ensure food and nutritional security.
Challenge
Rice is part of the the staple diet for more than 3.5 billion people and an important sector of the agri-food industry, providing food and livelihood for more than half of the world's population. It is critical to the future of food security that we employ new technologies to ensure sustainable rice production, food safety, and build new value for consumers.
Response
To address food and nutritional security, IRRI harnesses genetic, genomic, and genome editing technologies for rice improvement. To reveal high-value breeding targets, we leverage sequencing information of breeding material across the globe, and mine big data to identify diagnostic markers linked to various agronomic traits. Various systems-genetics tools and breeding informatics methods being developed through partners and stakeholders will be utilized to support precision breeding and the needs of the agri-food industry.
Objectives
Facilitate adoption of state-of-the-art, high-throughput biological data generation, analysis, interpretation, and application to support pre-breeding
Strengthen partnerships and technology transfer in research-driven innovation
Source, test, develop, and translate enabling technologies for global rice research and make them accessible to all stakeholders
Build capacity and regional impact to create new value addition opportunities by linking through nutrigenomics to rice agri-food sector innovations
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