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Title: | Introduction: Assessing opportunities for nitrogen fixation in rice - a frontier project |
Authors: | Ladha, J.K. Bruijn, F.J. de Malik, Dr. Kauser .A. |
Keywords: | Assessing nitrogen fixation |
Issue Date: | Jul-1997 |
Publisher: | springer link |
Citation: | Ladha, J., de Bruijn, F. & Malik, K. Introduction: Assessing opportunities for nitrogen fixation in rice - a frontier project. Plant and Soil 194, 1–10 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1004264423436 |
Series/Report no.: | Plant and Soil 194, 1–10 (1997); |
Abstract: | Recent advances in understanding symbiotic Rhizobium-legume interactions at the molecular level, the discovery of endophytic interactions of nitrogen-fixing organisms with non-legumes, and the ability to introduce genes into rice by transformation have stimulated researchers world wide to harness opportunities for nitrogen fixation and improved N nutrition in rice. In a think-tank workshop organized by IRRI in 1992, the participants reaffirmed that such opportunities do exist for cereals and recommended that rice be used as a model system. Subsequently, IRRI developed a New Frontier Project to coordinate the worldwide collaborative efforts among research centers committed to reducing dependency of rice on mineral N resources. An international Biological Nitrogen Fixation (BNF) working group was established to review, share research results/materials and to catalyze research. The strategies of enabling rice to fix its own N are complex and of a long-term nature. However, if achieved, they could enhance rice productivity, resource conservation, and environmental security. The rate of obtaining success would, of course, benefit tremendously from concerted efforts from a critical mass of committed scientists around the world, as well as a constant and continued funding support from the ‘donor’ community. |
Description: | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1004264423436#citeas |
URI: | http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/1318 |
Appears in Collections: | School of Life Sciences |
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