IAEA resources - Type: News Article + Video; Topic: Plant breedingAtoms for Peace and Development
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enInternational Atomic Energy AgencyIAEA.Web-Team@iaea.orgIAEA.Web-Team@iaea.orgFri, 06 Aug 2021 08:26:48 +0200Fri, 06 Aug 2021 08:36:24 +0200Induction, Rapid Fixation and Retention of Mutations in Vegetatively Propagated Banana
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Mutation discovery technologies have enabled the development of reverse genetics for many plant species and allowed sophisticated evaluation of the consequences of mutagenesis. Such methods are relatively straightforward for seed-propagated plants.
International Atomic Energy Agency960082021-08-06 08:26IAEA resources - Type: News Article + Video; Topic: Plant breedingFlowers Blooming - A Follow-up of a Previous TCP in Thailand, THA/5/045
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In a pioneer project supported by the Departments of Technical Cooperation and Nuclear Sciences and Applications of the IAEA, mutant flowers that appealed to florists and growers produced were produced at Kasetsart University in Thailand, and thusly many new varieties were introduced into the market.
International Atomic Energy Agency952672021-07-22 10:18IAEA resources - Type: News Article + Video; Topic: Plant breedingRice Mutation Breeding in China
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Recent studies on Asian wild rice and land races of cultivars indicate that South Asia is most likely the main centre of origin of cultivated rice.
International Atomic Energy Agency952662021-07-22 09:56IAEA resources - Type: News Article + Video; Topic: Plant breedingImproved Barley Varieties - Feeding People from the Equator to the Arctic
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In the Andean highlands of Peru, native crops such as barley (Hordeum vulgare L.), quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa) and amaranth “kiwicha” (Amaranthus caudatus) are important food security crops for the 3 million people living there from subsistence agriculture.
International Atomic Energy Agency952652021-07-22 09:35IAEA resources - Type: News Article + Video; Topic: Plant breedingPlant Mutation Breeding Enhance Crop Productivity and Food Security in Drought-Prone Environments in Namibia
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Agriculture is a major contributor to the Namibian economy and is highly correlated to growth and development. The country has semi-arid and arid climatic condition regions and is one of the driest countries of Sub-Saharan Africa; consequently crop yields are severely limited by drought.
International Atomic Energy Agency952642021-07-22 08:33IAEA resources - Type: News Article + Video; Topic: Plant breedingWorld Wide Success in Mutation Breeding for Food Security - Achievement and Outstanding Achievement Awards
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This year, the Joint FAO/IAEA Centre of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture is celebrating its 50th Anniversary.
International Atomic Energy Agency952362021-07-21 10:33IAEA resources - Type: News Article + Video; Topic: Plant breedingTransforming the Crop Production Landscape in Bangladesh: A High Yielding, Early Maturing Rice Mutant Variety is Beating the Monga Food Insecurity Phenomenon
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As in most tropical and sub-tropical regions, in Bangladesh, there is a season called Monga (October and early November) during which crops are still maturing in the field but grain stock is dangerously limited in the monsoon season.
International Atomic Energy Agency952342021-07-21 10:06IAEA resources - Type: News Article + Video; Topic: Plant breedingTanzania: Enhancing Crop Productivity through Radiation Technology
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The project aimed at developing improved varieties of basic crops such as rice, banana and barley through tissue culture, radiation-induced mutations and molecular techniques and enhancing the crop breeding capacity in Tanzania.
International Atomic Energy Agency952332021-07-21 09:54IAEA resources - Type: News Article + Video; Topic: Plant breedingSuccessful Mutation Breeding Programmes in Vietnam
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Mutation breeding has become the most successful field of application of nuclear techniques in food and agriculture: more and more mutant crop varieties, especially in rice have been released to farmers and make great contributions to local and national food security.
International Atomic Energy Agency952312021-07-21 09:33IAEA resources - Type: News Article + Video; Topic: Plant breedingSorghum Mutation Breeding for Improving Tolerance to Abiotic Stresses Brought About by Climate Change
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The limiting factors for dryland agriculture development in Indonesia are mostly related to abiotic stresses i.e. drought problems in the eastern and soil acidity in the western part of the country.
International Atomic Energy Agency952302021-07-21 08:56IAEA resources - Type: News Article + Video; Topic: Plant breedingResponding to the Transboundary Threat of Wheat Black Stem Rust (Ug99)
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Mutation activities target rust diseases with emphasis on Ug99 to contribute to an eventually broadened gene base for rust resistance. Mutant lines that have resistance to Ug99, once selected, will effectively counter the threat to global wheat and barley production, the menace of Ug99.
International Atomic Energy Agency951322021-07-19 15:45IAEA resources - Type: News Article + Video; Topic: Plant breedingProtecting Wheat Harvests from Destruction
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Wheat stem rust (race Ug99), which was first identified in Uganda in 1999, is a new variety of an old crop disease called "stem rust".
International Atomic Energy Agency951312021-07-19 15:20IAEA resources - Type: News Article + Video; Topic: Plant breedingJuicy Tomatoes from Dry Cuban Soil
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Having in mind the need to have tomato varieties growing under low water input conditions, not only to save this valuable liquid but also to diversify production in drought-affected areas, a tomato breeding programme using nuclear techniques was started with the purpose of obtaining adequate yielding-potential cultivars under drought conditions using the Cuban tomato varieties INCA 9-1 and Amalia.
International Atomic Energy Agency951302021-07-19 14:54IAEA resources - Type: News Article + Video; Topic: Plant breedingBlossoming Ideas Creating Stronger Economies
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In Thailand, a flower is more than an ornament; it is the country's symbol and the main source of income for thousands of families.
International Atomic Energy Agency951262021-07-19 13:15IAEA resources - Type: News Article + Video; Topic: Plant breedingImprovement of Drought Tolerance in Chickpea through Induced Mutations
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This project is under the umbrella of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) and hosted by the Nuclear Institute for Food and Agriculture (NIFA) in Peshawar (NWFP and FATA Provinces).
International Atomic Energy Agency951162021-07-19 11:59IAEA resources - Type: News Article + Video; Topic: Plant breedingHigh Quality Mutant Rice Varieties Widely Grown in Viet Nam
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Mutant rice variety VND95-20 with high quality and tolerance to salinity became the key rice variety for export in 2005 ( 28% of the one million ha export rice area in the Mekong Delta).
International Atomic Energy Agency951152021-07-19 11:42IAEA resources - Type: News Article + Video; Topic: Plant breedingFrom the Lab to the Farm
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Vietnam is a developing agricultural country having 73.5% of its population living in the rural area. Crop production plays an important role in national food security and the rural development of Vietnam.
International Atomic Energy Agency951142021-07-19 11:15IAEA resources - Type: News Article + Video; Topic: Plant breedingIndian Groundnut
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Under IAEA/RCA Project RAS/5/40, in India, the total mutant series of TAG groundnut varieties (in the last 10 years, 10 varieties) has increasing success.
International Atomic Energy Agency951132021-07-19 10:45IAEA resources - Type: News Article + Video; Topic: Plant breedingHardy Crops in Harsh Environments
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One of the success stories in the use of induced mutations by a national agricultural research system in collaboration with the Agency's Plant Breeding and Genetics programme: Peru.
International Atomic Energy Agency951122021-07-19 10:31IAEA resources - Type: News Article + Video; Topic: Plant breeding