Varietal purity and proportions of grains with brown spots, fissured grains, chalky grains andwhole grains in a rice sample are important grain quality attributes influencing consumers'preference and price but little information exist on how these grain quality attributes are affectedby biophysical factors and pre-harvest practices. Several authors have studied in isolation theeffect of biophys...

Potted-seedling machine transplantation (PSMT) is an innovative method of mechanical rice transplanting to improve seedling quality and reduce injury relative blanket-seedling (BSMT). However, the responses yield, grain quality, risk lodging in PSMT have not yet been comprehensively defined. Here, we present a meta-analysis 67 peer-reviewed studies with 382 field observations investigate impact...

Purpose Improving the competitiveness of East Africa's rice industries necessitates increased and viable production quality desired by consumers. This paper aims to understand consumer preferences for attributes in Uganda Kenya inform countries' breeding programs value chain development interventions. Design/methodology/approach Rice samples are obtained from retail markets various districts/co...

Cereal/legume intercropping is an effective agricultural practice for pest and disease control crop production. However, global research on rice aquatic legume relatively rare. A field experiment during two seasons (2018 late season 2019 early season) was conducted to explore the effects of water mimosa canopy microclimate, disease, yield, grain quality, economic income. Two cultivation pattern...

Other SectionsAbstractRice is an important food crop that feeds most of the world's population. However, due to increased frequency pest outbreaks, it necessary cultivate complex pest-resistant rice cultivars. A mutant population was derived by culturing tissue ‘Hwayeong’ at Plant Molecular Breeding laboratory Kyungpook National University in Republic Korea. The cultivar ‘Drimi4ho’, a line resi...

Ammonia (NH3) volatilization from paddy fields is a major issue which leads to poor fertilizer use efficiency and considered severe threat the atmosphere. The previous research studies gave importance of nitrogen fertilizers mitigate NH3 volatilization, while very little emphasis was given role other fertilizers, such as phosphorus (P), for alleviation in rice fields. Considering P herein, we c...

Yield and rice quality indicators of crops are a direct reflection the rational irrigation fertilizer strategy. However, effects controlled (CI) combined with split application fertilization managements (straw returning, organic fertilizer, conventional fertilizer) on not clear in southeast China. This study aims at exploring three applied under CI or flooding yield, quality, enzyme activity, s...