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Engineering heat-tolerant, high-yield rice for a warming planet
- February 6, 2026 at 2:58 PM
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Rising day and night temperatures are threatening rice, wheat, and maize production by disrupting plant growth, grain filling, and grain quality, putting global food security at risk. Precision breeding and genome editing offer ways to reprogram plant clocks, optimize flowering and panicle architecture, and protect grain quality under heat stress.
Originally published at Phys.org