The stable and affordable rice price is one of the components that well contributed to the food security in Indonesia. One of the rice problems is related to its price spread, farmers as a rice producer want to get high ...

Rice is the most important food commodity in Indonesia. The need for rice continues to increase with the population increase. Plant breeding‘s objective to obtain high-yielding varieties is an attempt to increase production ...

Drought is the most significant environmental stress in agriculture and many efforts have been made to improve crop productivity under water-limiting conditions. Improving yield under drought is a major goal of plant ...

There are several acts of antagonisms by bacteria toward phytopathogen and one of them is by producing antimicrobial compounds such as antibiotics. In dual plate tests, Pseudomonadaceae SH2a and Pantoea sp. MO22g showed ...

Intensive use of single source of male sterile cytoplasm (i.e. wild abortive or WA) in developing hybrid rice might lead to genetic vulnerability associated with susceptibility to pests and diseases. The research aim was ...

Rice cultivation on acid soil will face several constraints mainly high aluminum (Al) solubility that toxic for plant. Therefore, it requires Al-tolerant rice variety that can be developed through marker assisted breeding. ...