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Trends in Rice Seed Production

Rapolu Shyamsunder

Rice (Oryza sativa) is one of the main cereal crops, as well as staple food for most of the world’s population, especially Asian countries. In India, rice is most commonly grown by transplanting rice seedlings into puddled soil. But now, with the onset of second-generation problems, such as soil fatigue, declining water table, and, most important, climate change, production and productivity gains of rice are a big question mark. In China, bacterial blight was initially discovered in 1900 in the Guangdong province. Salinity promotes some antioxidant compounds and antioxidant capacity in rice.