16.07.2013 Descriptors for wild and cultivated Rice (Oryza spp.) Bioversity International, IRRI and WARDA (2007)Descriptors for wild and cultivated rice (Oryza spp.) is a revision of the original IBPGR and IRRI publication ‘Descriptors for rice (Oryza sativa L.)’ (1...

16.07.2013 Article alert: The carbon count of 2000 years of rice cultivation Global Change Biology, 19: 1107–1113. doi: 10.1111/gcb.12080Kalbitz, K., Kaiser, K., Fiedler, S., Kölbl, A., Amelung, W., Bräuer, T., Cao, Z., Don, A., Grootes, P., Jahn, R., Schwark, L., Vogelsang, V....

16.07.2013 Article alert: Participatory crop improvement and formal release of Jethobudho rice landrace in Nepal Euphytica (2010) 176(1): 59-78. doi: 10.1007/s10681-010-0213-0Gyawali S. et al.Jethobudho is an aromatic rice landrace of the Pokhara valley in middle hills of Nepal. Although local consumers are willi...

12.07.2013 Job alert: Two Postdoctoral Positions in Population Genetics at Bee Institute of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China Two postdoctoral positions are available in the Genetics and Breeding Department of the Bee Institute of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China. The project focuses on population genetics and marker-assisted...

11.07.2013 Job alert: Deputy Director General, Research (DDG-R) at IRRI International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) is seeking a DDG-R who, as a member of its senior management team, will provide strategic leadership for IRRI research programs. The DDG-R has the full responsibility for leading, ...

09.07.2013 Job alert: Postdoc Position in Ecology at University of Göttingen (Germany) Agroecology Group at Göttingen University (http://www.agroecology.uni-goettingen.de) invites applications for a postdoc position in “Pollination, Biocontrol and Biodiversity in a Landscape Context”. The aim of this proje...

04.06.2013 Job alert: Doctoral fellowship (University of Leipzig, Germany) The University of Leipzig invites applications for a doctoral fellowship on “The importance of antagonistic interactions for plant species coexistence and ecosystem functioning”. Applications are accepted until July 1, ...

17.05.2013 San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) calls for reassessment of the importance of Impact Factor The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) was initiated by the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) together with a group of editors and publishers of scholarly journals after a meeting in December 2012...

06.04.2013 LEGATO Conference, Hanoi, Vietnam, 8 April 2013 Towards a long-term sustainable rice paddy farming in Southeast Asia Rice is among the main crops for many countries and an indispensible source of food for a large percentage of mankind. However, given the r...

05.04.2013 Article alert: The International Oryza Map Alignment Project: development of a genus-wide comparative genomics platform to help solve the 9 billion-people question Current Opinion in Plant Biology (2013) Jacquemin J et al.The wild relatives of rice contain a virtually untapped reservoir of traits that can be used help drive the 21st century green revolution aimed at sol...

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