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Researchers identify gene that improves rice yields in poor soil

Reuters: Science - Posted: August 22nd, 2012, 7:50pm EDT

HONG KONG (Reuters) - A gene that raises rice yields by enhancing root growth and nutrient absorption in low quality soils has been identified in a species of rice in India and successfully introduced into other rice varieties, researchers reported on Thursday.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=16ES5dkQbnA:RVRfEqnnEcs:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=16ES5dkQbnA:RVRfEqnnEcs:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?i=16ES5dkQbnA:RVRfEqnnEcs:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=16ES5dkQbnA:RVRfEqnnEcs:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?i=16ES5dkQbnA:RVRfEqnnEcs:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/scienceNews/~4/16ES5dkQbnA" height="1" width="1"/

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