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Farmers transplant rice to their fields.
Farmers transplant rice to their fields. Rice is an important staple for billions of people, and in recent years, rice has become too scarce or expensive for millions of families around the world. One cause of this problem is that it can be expensive and inefficient to move crops such as rice from the places they are grown to consumers. To tackle this problem, the Nutritious Rice for the World project uses computers to analyze rice protein structures, with the goal of producing better strains of rice that can produce higher yields of more nourishing rice that can be grown in a variety of environments.
Credit: Courtesy of the International Rice Research Institute
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