Genotyping Services Laboratory - IRRI

29/06/2018

Breeding advancement strategies through partnership
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Visit our website and check out SNP markers available for your breeding populations.

30/01/2018

Congratulations to Dr. Inez Slamet-Loedin, IRRI Genetic Transformation Laboratory Head, for being one of the newly elected Fellows of TWAS - The World Academy of Sciences!

TWAS is a global science academy that works to support sustainable prosperity through research, education, policy, and diplomacy.

KNOW MORE: https://twas.org/article/twas-elects-55-new-fellows

15/01/2018

01/12/2017

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23/10/2017

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15/09/2017

This unique online resource - http://rice-diseases.irri.org - is authored by 25 global rice disease specialists who have covered the importance of 80 plant diseases in rice production, the biology of these diseases, and selected disease management practices.

Published by IRRI, it was funded by the Global Rice Science Partnership (GRiSP, RICE as of 1 January 2017), the CGIAR program on rice. As indicated in the table of contents - http://rice-diseases.irri.org/home/contents - a few more chapters are forthcoming as soon as they are final checked by the reviewers.

Correct citation: Mew TW, Hibino H, Savary S, Vera Cruz CM, Opulencia R, Hettel GP, eds. 2017. Rice diseases: Biology and selected management practices. Los Baños (Philippines): International Rice Research Institute. PDF e-book. http://rice-diseases.irri.org.

10/08/2017

IRRI's Genetic Transformation Laboratory team wins Outstanding Research Award for its work on iron- and zinc-fortified indica rice.

08/08/2017

Gelia Castillo (1928-2017): Helping science to serve a human purpose: http://news.irri.org/2017/08/gelia-t-castillo-1928-2017-helping.html

Listen to some of the speakers at a memorial service for Gelia attended by IRRI colleagues held on 9 August 2017 at the Resurrection Chapel of St. Therese on the UPLB campus in Los Baños, Laguna: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNowyW0S1hI-PBNFUzGhyop1mIfqWgtRr

Gelia was a Philippine National Scientist, professor emeritus at the University of the Philippines Los Baños, and visiting scientist at IRRI during the mid-1980s and long-time consultant to the Institute from 1994 on. She was truly the grande dame of the IRRI community. She was already contributing her social science expertise to the early efforts of the Institute’s fledgling Agricultural Economics Department back in the 1960s.

Half a century later, she was still asking piercing questions at Thursday seminars and making pithy on-the-mark observations during the annual scientific reviews. Her 1975 tome, "All in a grain of rice" (https://ecommons.cornell.edu/handle/1813/34492), is still a great read 42 years later.

Her 2009 IRRI Pioneer Interview displayed her great enthusiasm, zest, and love for rice, rural sociology, and life itself: https://youtu.be/GsphKUj1mDI

In lieu of flowers, friends may give a donation in honor of Gelia to the Philippine Sociological Society.

The IRRI community offers its deepest condolences to the family.

RIP Gelia!

24/05/2017

Tara at ipamahagi! 🇵🇭

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12/03/2017

LOS BAÑOS, Philippines—The world's largest collection of aquatic fern (azolla) from the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) is being...

06/01/2017

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29/11/2016

On Sunday morning at IRRI, Rudy Aquino (left) and Peter Jennings met face-to-face for the first time in nearly 50 years. They are the surviving members of the breeding team at IRRI who selected the parents and made the cross that ultimately led to the semidwarf rice variety IR8, which IRRI released 50 years ago this coming Tuesday (29 November) to jump start the Green Revolution in rice .

Peter was IRRI’s first rice breeder who arrived in 1961. See his Pioneer Interview, “Luck is the residue of design,” at http://ricetoday.irri.org/luck-is-the-residue-of-design

One of Rudy’s tasks on the breeding team was indeed historic in that he was the technician who actually did the pollinating for many of the rice crosses in 1962, one of which (Dee-geo-woo-gen x Peta) involved the parents of IR8. Read in his own words about his time at IRRI:http://irri.org/images/downloads/Rodolfo_Aquino.pdf

Photo by Gene Hettel.