In Sri Lanka, the research and development (R&D) program on hybrid rice began in late 1994. Initially, this program was academic rather than goal-oriented. However, in 1996, the hybrid rice R&D program was revised to be goal-oriented in collaboration with the International Rice Research ...
The Ultisol soil, which was collected from a plot cultivated with rice without fertilizer application for past 40 years (P0) at the Rice Research and Development Institute (RRDI), Bathalagoda, Sri Lanka, was used as the potting medium for greenhouse trials. Two field trials were conducted in...
Sri Lanka is almost self sufficient in rice (Oryzasativa-Indica type) while heat (Triticum vulgare) is imported to the country. Therefore Ceylon Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research initiated a programme to develop alternate food products from rice with a view of diversifying the methods...
Kim SC, Ha WG (2005) Direct seeding and weed management in Korea. In: Toriyama K, Heong KL, Hardy B (eds) Rice is life: scientific perspectives for the 21st century. International Rice Research Institute/Japan International Rice Research Center for Agricultural Sciences, Los Baños/Tsukuba, ...
Rice grain quality preferences in Asia Pacific countries (India, China, Nepal, Bhutan, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Thailand, Cambodia, Philippine, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Korea, Myanmar, Japan). The quality perceptions indicators are recorded as low, medium, high, light, strong, soft, soft sti...
Adaptations of brown planthopper (Nilaparvata lugens) populations to rice varieties in Sri Lanka Entomologia experimentalis et applicata (1982) International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) Hui-Chi Lei et al. Studies on Nilaparvata lugens (Stål) in Hunan Acta Entomologica Sinica (1958) There are mor...
This book is based on a field research project focused on rice growing and undertaken in 1973-74 in North Arcot District in Tamil Nadu, India, and Hambantota and Moneragala Districts, Sri Lanka. The researchers included workers qualified in economics, geography, hydrology, sociology, statistics,...
Two contrasting rice genotypes [Pusa-44 (P-deficiency sensitive) and NIL-23 (P-deficiency tolerant) received from the Division of Genetics, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi] were used in the present study. Mature seeds of the contrasting rice genotype [along with the origina...
Abeysekara ASK, Herath HMS, Wickrame UB, Nugaliyadde L, Johnson DE (2010) Germinability, viability, and longevity of weedy and cultivated rice in Sri Lanka. In: International rice research conference. Hanoi, Vietnam Adugna A (2013) Ecotypic variation for seed dormancy, longevity and germi...
Bioversity International, Rome, Italy; International Rice Research Institute, Los Banos, Philippines; WARDA, Africa Rice Center, Cotonou, Benin. pp 1–122 Chen H, Tan C, Lin Z (2018) Authenticity detection of black rice by near-infrared spectroscopy and support vector data description. Int J ...