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                    [Title] => ’Junks’ help improve new rice varieties
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Junks may not be totally useless if something is done to make them beneficial to man. 


One good example is the improved IR58025B where the IRBB lines of IRRI (International Rice Research Institute) were used as bacterial blight resistance gene donor.
[DatePublished] => 2007-01-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1750993 [AuthorName] => Sosimo Ma. Pablico [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 136598 [Title] => NCBP sets biotech rice field tests late this year [Summary] => LOS BAÑOS, Laguna – Hundreds of residents of Central Luzon provinces have attended the series of public forums on biotechnology-derived rice conducted over the past two months in the Science City of Muñoz, Nueva Ecija.

The forums were held to create awareness of and consult the people of Nueva Ecija and nearby provinces regarding the contained field trial of biotech rices with Xa-21 gene for resistance to bacterial blight (BB), a major rice disease.
[DatePublished] => 2001-10-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1723283 [AuthorName] => Rudy A. Fernandez [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) ) )
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