In the coming decades, maintaining a steady food supply for the increasing world population
will require high-yielding crop plants which can be productive under increasingly variable …

Rice is a major food crop in the world. Owing to the shortage of rural labor and the
development of agricultural mechanization, direct seeding has become the main method of …

The development of nutrient-use efficient rice lines is a priority amidst the changing climate
and depleting resources viz., water, land, and labor for achieving sustainability in rice …

Background Ongoing large-scale shift towards direct seeded rice (DSR) necessitates a
convergence of breeding and genetic approaches for its sustenance and harnessing natural …

Direct seeding of rice (Oryza sativa L.) is a low-labor and sustainable cultivation method that
is used worldwide. Seed vigor and early vigor are important traits associated with seedling …

Water and land resources have been aggressively exploited in the recent decades to meet
the growing demands for food. The changing climate has prompted rice scientists and …

Seed vigor is an important character of seed quality that promotes rice to germinate rapidly
from soil and developing to a strong seedling, especially in the current rice direct-sowing …

Soils with highly uniform textural, physical, and chemical characteristics still give rise to crop
stand variability. Seed quality is one of the factors adding to yield variability and has become …

Weed competitive ability (WCA) is vital for the improvement of grain yield under direct-
seeded and aerobic rice ecosystems where weeds are a major limiting factor. Early seed …

Elucidation of the genetic control of rice seedling vigour is now paramount with global shifts
towards direct seeding of rice and the consequent demand for early vigour traits in breeding …