A miracle rice anniversary timeline

IRRI is celebrating the 50th anniversary of IR8, one of the more important crop varieties ever produced by plant breeders, with a neat interactive timeline of the history of its development and impact.

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I was going to include a pedigree of the thing, but, alas, the International Rice Information System seems to be down at the time of writing. Oh well.

LATER: National Geographic to the rescue with that IR8 pedigree.

One Reply to “A miracle rice anniversary timeline”

  1. Pedigree of IR8 is pretty straightforward, with little tracking back to three landraces:
    Dee Geo Woo Gen x Peta (Cina ((i.e. China)) x Latisail)

    For rice nerds who want more, pedigrees of all IR varieties are available here: books.irri.org/9712202062_content.pdf

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