An international partnership for the breeding and delivery of drought-tolerant rice varieties by market- oriented plant breeding and marker-assisted selection

摘要

Farmers of the Chhotanagpur plateau of eastern India predominantly grow rice landraces in the rainfed uplands. To better address the needs of the market, on-farm and farmer-oriented approaches were used in a collaborative programme between GVT (NGO),BAU (GO), and CAZS, an advanced research institute (ARI), using funds from a DFID bilateral project managed by GVT and from the DFID Plant Sciences Research Programme. This collaborative research has led to the development and delivery of farmer-accepted varieties in less than six years.