Scientists identify a genetic mechanism that protects
rice crops without affecting the yield
By Laxmi Iyer -
February
20, 2017
Rice blast lesions on plant nodes
Credit: Donald Groth – USDA Forest Service, Wikimedia commons
Rice
blast is a fungus and a plant pathogen causing serious disease in rice crops,
affecting China and other agricultural economies worldwide. It can halve grain
production. Scientists estimate it destroys enough rice crops globally to feed
more 85 million people annually.
Chinese
scientists have now identified a new genetic mechanism in rice that could be
utilized to maintain resistance to this devastating disease, without causing
the typical tradeoff – a decrease in grain yield, the study reports.
“Experts
estimate that rice blast causes the loss of 3 million tons of rice in China
every year,” said He Zuhua, chief scientist of the research team from the
Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology at the Chinese Academy of
Sciences.
“Although
some areas can control the disease, the cost is the large use of pesticides.
“It
is a threat to the environment and food security. So we have been looking for
disease-resistant genes. By identifying the useful gene and promoting it to
more rice products, we can not only control rice blast but also protect the
environment and public health.”
The
team in 2006 had identified a gene, Pigm, which has broad-spectrum
resistance.
The
scientists then spent a decade to analyze the mechanism of the gene locus and
found that it encodes two proteins — PigmR and PigmS.
PigmR can defend disease but
leads to a drop in production, while PigmS can raise grain
production but inhibits the resistance effect of PigmR.
In
the present study, scientists explored these genes in greater detail, finding
that PigmR was particularly effective, providing complete
resistance to 50 rice blast variations. If PigmR is expressed
while seeds are made, however, this hinders seed production and thus reduces
yield, the authors reported.
They
found that co-expression of another gene, PigmS, interferes with
the resistance properties of PigmR.
Intriguingly,
in one strain of rice plants, PigmR was found to be expressed
throughout the plant, while expression of PigmS was limited to
the reproductive tissues, thus limiting the seed damage associated with PigmR.
This
site-specific suppression endows the plant with resistance to rice blast in its
stem, stalk, leaves, without compromising yield.
The
researchers also identified specific amino acids that are involved in blocking
the function of PigmR.
Says He
Zuhua-
“By
fully understanding the gene, we can guide seed companies and breeders. So far,
over 30 domestic companies and breeders have used our discovery for molecular
breeding to allow new rice varieties with better disease resistance effects but
ideal production.
https://biotechin.asia/2017/02/20/scientists-identify-a-genetic-mechanism-that-protects-rice-crops-without-affecting-the-yield/
Enzymes aid rice plants’ arsenic
defenses
Converting one
form of toxic element to another limits health dangers
12:08PM, FEBRUARY 19, 2017
DETOX Rice plants can convert
arsenic to a different form in their roots to push the toxic element back into
the soil.
BOSTON — Rooted in place, plants can’t run
away from arsenic-tainted soil — but they’re far from helpless. Scientists have
identified enzymes that help rice plant roots tame arsenic, converting it into
a form that can be pushed back into the soil. That leaves less of the toxic element to spread into the plants’ grains, where it can pose a health risk to
humans, researchers reported February 17 at the annual meeting of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science. Once arsenic worms its way into rice plant roots and gets into the vascular system, “it’s transported into the leaves and the grain,” David Salt, a biologist at the University of Nottingham in England who conducted the recent research, said during a news conference. Inside the plant, arsenic “can accumulate to levels where it can potentially be toxic if it accumulates over long times.”
Since arsenic occurs naturally in soil, understanding the genetic basis for plants’ natural defense mechanisms might help researchers engineer plants that take in less arsenic, said Mary Lou Guerinot, a biologist at Dartmouth College.
Rooting out trouble
Plants make HAC1 enzymes (shown in
green) in the outer cells of their roots, where the enzymes help the root cells
rid themselves of arsenic. Scientists looked at the enzyme’s distribution at
three different levels of the root — the tip, the growth zone, and the mature
part of the root that’s no longer growing.
Arsenic in the soil switches between two different forms — ions
with different electric charges. That form depends on soil conditions, which in
a rice field fluctuate between wetter and drier. Plants are more likely to pull
in arsenite from the soggy soil of a flooded rice paddy, and arsenate when that
soil dries out a bit. The plants use different chemical mechanisms to take in
and process the different arsenic ions.In arsenate-rich soil, the ion sneaks into the outer layer of root cells through specialized passageways, called transport channels, that normally carry phosphate ions through root cell membranes. Transforming arsenate into arsenite lets the roots push the element back into the soil through a process called efflux, but scientists weren’t sure how the plant changed arsenic’s form.
Salt’s team found that rice plants without working genes for enzymes called HAC1;1 and HAC1;2 couldn’t turn arsenate into arsenite. So more arsenate accumulated in the plants’ shoots. When the scientists made HAC1;1 and HAC1;2 genes in other rice plants produce more of the enzymes than usual, grains from those plants had lower concentrations of any form of arsenic.
It’s just one defense of many, Salt said, and it’s not bulletproof. Arsenate can still spread into plants’ vascular systems from the roots via phosphate channels.
When the soil is rich in arsenite, rice roots take arsenite up through the same channels that take in silicon. Although efflux is an efficient way for roots to get rid of arsenite, there’s a limit to how quickly the cells can push the ion out.
So to create rice plants that are better at dealing with arsenic, Salt and other scientists are looking not just at how roots push out arsenic once it gets in, but how they keep the toxin out to begin with. For example, engineering channels that are better at pulling in just phosphate or just silicon could lessen the amount of arsenic that co-opts those channels.
Since soil conditions in a rice field switch between dry and wet, plants need defense mechanisms for both forms of arsenic. “Once we know what forms the plant takes in and how it’s doing that, we’ll need a solution for arsenate and arsenite,” Guerinot says. “There’s no easy fix.”
Price cap on basmati rice imports
by Iran worries Indian exporters
Industry expects substantial dip
in shipments
MUMBAI, FEBRUARY
19:
The delay in restart of basmati
rice imports by Iran and the new price cap of $850 a tonne could pose a major
challenge for exporters in India.Basmati rice prices have rallied by 20-25 per
cent since Iran announced to lift the five-month-old ban on imports from India
last month.
India exported 4.05 million tonne
(mt) of basmati rice last fiscal. Of this, one mt was to Iran. This year, the
industry expects overall exports to dip to 3.8 mt due to lower exports to Iran.
Deepak Jotwani, Assistant
Vice-President, ICRA, said, “Iran is a major export destination for Indian
basmati rice and a decline in demand from Iran has played a major role in
pulling down export realisation to $784 a tonne in the first eight months of
this fiscal against $1,298 a tonne in FY14.”
Iran’s strategy
Over the years, Iran has imposed
ban on basmati rice imports from time-to-time to reduce its inventory held by
its traders and safeguard the interests of its local farmers.
Iran last imposed a ban on
basmati rice imports in July 2016. The Union government had sent a trade
delegation to Iran in January to resolve the issue.
Following this, it was expected
that the import ban would be removed soon.
While there has been no official
notification from Iran, a group of large basmati rice importers in Iran have
recently capped the price of basmati rice at $850 a tonne.
In another adverse development
for the industry, the US has recently imposed fresh trade sanctions on Iran,
which restrains Iran from using dollar for trade.
These two developments have
created uncertainty around the resumption of basmati rice exports to Iran, said
Jotwani.
75% goes to West Asia
While basmati rice is consumed
across the globe, West Asian countries accounted for 75 per cent of Indian
basmati exports last fiscal. Within West Asia, Iran and Saudi Arabia are the
two largest buyers, together accounting for 40-50 per cent of total basmati
rice exports from India.
In the past, Iran had been placed
under economic sanctions by the US, Europe and the United Nations, following
which India started transacting in rupee through UCO Bank to facilitate trade
between India and Iran. This led to a surge in Indian basmati rice exports to
Iran
Three ways scientists are
trying to keep arsenic out of our diets
BOSTON—Less
is better. That much is clear about arsenic, the naturally occurring metal in
soil and rock that sneaks into well water and infiltrates food crops. High
levels in drinking water are linked to multiple cancers, lung and
cardiovascular disease, and neurodevelopmental delays in children. But it’s not
so clear exactly what levels are acceptable in food, and how best to limit our
exposure. And concern is growing—particularly when it comes to rice, which is
known to accumulate arsenic more readily than many other plants. At a session
yesterday here at the annual meeting of AAAS, which
publishes Science,
researchers described efforts to keep the toxin out of our crops and off our
plates.
Develop arsenic-averse crops
Arsenic gets into plants through a “case of mistaken
identity,” plant biologist David Salt of the University of Nottingham in
the United Kingdom explained yesterday. It offers no benefit to a plant,
but enters its roots thanks to mechanisms meant to bring in nutrients such as
silicon. Several labs are working to describe the mechanisms of these cellular
transporters, and eventually to render them more selective. That could happen
through genetic engineering with a system such as CRISPR, he
says. But it might also be possible through traditional breeding of plant
varieties with a natural tendency to keep arsenic out. Salt and others are now
testing the arsenic uptake in hundreds of rice varieties to identify relevant
regions of their genome. “We’re closing in on genes,” he says, but “we don’t
have genes yet.”
Tweak the irrigation equation
In parts of Asia, dangerous arsenic levels can arise
when rice and other crops are irrigated with well water drawn from deep within
arsenic-rich rock. And growing rice in flooded fields has been shown to
increase its levels in the grain 10-fold by converting arsenic to a form that
the roots take up more readily. Some researchers are exploring the effect of
water-conserving strategies that allow fields to dry partially before reflooding.
But plant biologist Mary Lou Guerinot of Dartmouth College, who organized the
session, notes that those strategies will have to balance arsenic risk against
another risk—higher uptake of the toxin cadmium in unflooded fields.
Promote careful eating
For U.S. policymakers, even the scale of the arsenic
problem is hard to estimate, explained panelist Keeve Nachman, an environmental
health scientist with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in
Baltimore, Maryland. Since 2013, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has
proposed limits on allowable arsenic levels in apple
juice and infant
rice cereal. But there’s still heated debate about what levels
of exposure actually increase risk of cancer or other illnesses. Nachman, who
is part of a 2-year effort known as the Collaborative on Food with Arsenic and
Associated Risk and Regulation, aims to inventory the foods that can contain
arsenic and prioritize those that may contribute most to our overall intake.
Pressure on regulators and farmers to keep levels low will likely come from
consumers, he says. “They’re the ones that drive change in the first place
India’s Rice Export Recovery Awaits Iranian Orders
Sunday,
February 19, 2017
Delay in resumption of imports by Iran is likely to hinder the
recovery in Indian Basmati rice exports, says India’s investment information
and credit rating agency ICRA in its latest update on Indian Basmati rice
industry.
ICRA estimates this as a temporary delay, considering Iran’s
insufficient domestic rice production and depleting inventory levels to meet
domestic demand, according to Mumbai-based Indian financial services company
India Infoline.
In ICRA’s view, the price cap of $850 per ton could pose further
hurdles for the Indian Basmati rice industry, given that during the current
procurement season, average Basmati paddy prices have been higher by 20-25%.
Thus, an inflow of orders from Iran, even after the import ban is lifted,
remains to be seen.
According to Deepak Jotwani, assistant vice president of ICRA,
“Iran is a major export destination for Indian Basmati rice and decline in
demand from Iran has played a role in the declining realizations of exports
from India–from $1,298 per ton in fiscal year 2014 to $784 per ton in eight
months of fiscal year 2017.”
Iran is among major importers of Basmati rice from India.
However, over the years, the Iranian government imposed a ban on the import of
Basmati rice as per the movement in inventory held by its rice traders and the
interests of its local farmers during the harvest season.
Iran last imposed a ban on import of Basmati rice in July 2016.
Since the ban persisted against industry expectations, the government of India
sent a trade delegation to Iran in January 2017 to resolve the issue.
Following this, the import ban was expected to be removed soon.
While there has been no official notification from Iran, a group of large
Basmati rice importers in Iran have recently capped the price of Basmati rice
imports at $850 per ton.
In another adverse development for the industry, the US has
recently imposed fresh trade sanctions on Iran, which restrains Iran’s use of
the US dollar for trade. These two developments have created uncertainty around
the resumption of Basmati rice exports to Iran.
The Iranian government has recently amended tariffs for
importing rice by reducing it from the previous 40% to 26%. It was announced on
January 21 that the rate would stand at 5% following a series of tariff cuts on
a list of agro-food products.
According to the Ministry of Agriculture, Iranians consume more
than 3 million tons of rice every year, of which almost 2.2 million tons are
supplied by domestic farmers
Sona Masuri prices may further go up
·
Hindu
·
Sun,19 Feb 2017
·
Summary: The wholesale Sona Masuri
rice prices are consequently up from ?3,000 a quintal to ?4,000 a quintal. Sona
Masuri paddy is grown extensively in the belt twice a year, except at canals’
tail-end parts. Already, the Sona Masuri paddy price has risen from ?1,500 a
quintal in December last year to ?2,200 a quintal now. Rice millers in Raichur
predict a sharp rise in the prices of Sona Masuri rice variety that has been in
high demand for its superior quality in Bengaluru and other metros. None of the
fields along any of the canals in the command area has received water for a
second crop for the second successive year.
Tungabhadra
reservoir in Koppal district, a lifeline for irrigation-dependent agriculture
in Raichur, Koppal, and Ballari districts, has less than 5 tmcft water against
its capacity of about 70 tmcft. None of the fields along any of the canals in
the command area has received water for a second crop for the second successive
year. This has hit rice cultivation and at least half of the rice mills in
Raichur, Sindhanur and Gangavati. Other towns in the paddy-growing areas have
downed their shutters with no supply.
Rice millers in Raichur predict a sharp rise in the prices of Sona Masuri rice variety that has been in high demand for its superior quality in Bengaluru and other metros. Already, the Sona Masuri paddy price has risen from ?1,500 a quintal in December last year to ?2,200 a quintal now. The wholesale Sona Masuri rice prices are consequently up from ?3,000 a quintal to ?4,000 a quintal. “The prices are expected to rise further considering the crop loss in the Cauvery basin in Tamil Nadu and Tungabhadra basin in Andhra Pradesh,” Maram Tippanna, a rice miller from Raichur told The Hindu.
Rice millers in Raichur predict a sharp rise in the prices of Sona Masuri rice variety that has been in high demand for its superior quality in Bengaluru and other metros. Already, the Sona Masuri paddy price has risen from ?1,500 a quintal in December last year to ?2,200 a quintal now. The wholesale Sona Masuri rice prices are consequently up from ?3,000 a quintal to ?4,000 a quintal. “The prices are expected to rise further considering the crop loss in the Cauvery basin in Tamil Nadu and Tungabhadra basin in Andhra Pradesh,” Maram Tippanna, a rice miller from Raichur told The Hindu.
Source: http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/Sona-Masuri-prices-may-further-go-up/article17326384.ece
Palawan vows to expand areas devoted to rice production
Published February 18, 2017, 3:28 PM
By Philippine News Agency
Palawan has pledged an expansion
area of 100,000 hectares for the country’s rice production program, said the
Department of Agriculture (DA).
Palawan rice production | Manny Piñol Facebook | Manila Bulletin
“(The) availability of new rice
farming areas in Palawan offers a relief to the problem besetting the country’s
rice production,” said DA Secretary Emmanuel F. Piñol, noting the traditional
rice farming areas are now affected by climate change.
Piñol said the new area is in
addition to the island-province’s 59,000 hectares of rice farms that have
enabled Palawan to achieve 110-percent rice self-sufficiency.
During a meeting with agriculture
chief on Wednesday, Palawan Gov. Jose Alvarez also sought assistance by the DA
to help address Palawan’s highly acidic soil that has kept its rice production
relatively low.
While Palawan needs more
irrigation facilities, Alvarez stressed that these should not destroy the
natural beauty of the province, which is a popular tourism destination.
Piñol instructed Philippine Rice
Research Institure (PhilRice) executive director Dr. Sailila Abdulla to form a
team along with the Bureau of Soils and Water Management to conduct an
extensive soil analysis in Palawan.
He further said that instead of
building water-impounding dams, the DA would introduce to Palawan the
environment-friendly irrigation system, known as Solar-Powered Irrigation
Systems (SPIS), which will draw water from the rivers.
Piñol asked Regional Director Boy
Santiago to program the establishment of the SPIS without having to build dams.
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The National Movement for
Consumer Rights Protection says , selling local and imported rice at two
different prices will only create more complications for the consumers.The
movement adds that imposing two separate controlled prices will have a direct
impact on the quality of rice that enters the market.
At a meeting held recently, rice
producers proposed the implementation of two controlled prices for local and
imported rice.
Considering the decisions made by
the Cabinet Sub-committee on the Cost of Living – the Consumer Affairs
Authority published a gazette with the new prices.
According to the new control
prices that came into effect from midnight yesterday, the MRP for a kilogramme
of imported Nadu Rice will be Rs. 72. while the MRP for a kilogramme of local
Nadu Rice will be Rs. 80.
The Maximum Retail Price for a
kilogramme of imported Kekulu Rice will be Rs. 70/- while the MRP for a
kilogramme of local Kekulu Rice will be Rs. 78.
The MRP for a kilogramme of
imported Samba Rice will be Rs. 80 and for local Samba Rice the MRP will be Rs.
90.
Today the National Movement for
Consumer Rights Protection inspected several locations in Colombo to inquire in
to the quality of rice available in the market.
Traders claim that even though a
new controlled price has been introduced, they cannot sell locally produced
rice for those prices.
The Essential Commodities
Importers & Traders Association also echoes that two control prices will
not benefit the consumers at all.
Essential Commodities Importers
& Traders Association believes that when consumers purchase rice in the
market, they can only differentiate the local rice from the imported rice from
the bag that contains rice and in this backdrop, the MRP for local rice is
higher than the MRP for imported rice.
According to the Essential
Commodities Importers and Traders Association the distribution of rice lies
with the local mills and there are around 204,000 small shops across the
country that import goods therefore the MRP for local rice is “extremely high.”
Large scale mills are exerting
pressure on the government therefore the government decided to make amends to
the MRP, according to the All Ceylon Peasants Federation.
Chairman of the Federation added
that the government imposed a separate MRP for imported rice and another MRP
for locally produced rice but there are rice stocks in the country.
The Ministry of Industry and
Commerce says there is no shortage of rice in the country.
It adds that the monthly rice
consumption of the country is 200,000 metric tonnes and there is 600,000 metric
tonnes of rice currently in the country which would suffice for the next three
months.
The Ministry also goes on to note
that imported rice stocks are still reaching the country in order to enforce
the Control Price and ensure a streamlined distribution.
The Ministry also said that
Cabinet has approved the importation of rice through Sathosa which would result
in rice being sold for a much lesser price. 
Minister of Rural Economic
Affairs,P. Harrison pointed out that there is a issue among the traders because
of the locally produced rice and the imported rice and this issue will be
resolved in the coming days. He added that the controlled Price was introduced last night and
there is a good price for the locally produced rice in the country.
The minister further noted that Sathosa
will import 100,000 metric tonnes of rice or more in the future and importers
have been granted permission for 250,000 metric tonnes of rice and a portion of
that has reached the country with rest expected to reach port in the coming
weeks and locally produced rice will also reach markets
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ICRA: Delay in resumption of imports by Iran likely to hinder
recovery in Basmati rice exports from India
02/18/2017 | 05:01am EST
Delay in resumption of imports by Iran is likely to hinder the recovery in Indian Basmati rice exports, says ICRA in its latest update note on IndianBasmati rice industry. Delay in resumption of imports by Iran is likely to hinder the recovery in Indian Basmati rice exports, says ICRA in its latestupdate note on Indian Basmati rice industry. ICRA estimates this as a temporary delay,
considering Iran's insufficient domestic rice
production and depleting inventory levels to meet its demand.
In ICRA's view, the price cap of $850/MT could pose further
hurdles for the Basmati rice industry, given that during the current procurement season
average Basmati paddy prices have been higher by 20-25%. Thus an inflow of
orders from Iran, even after the import ban is lifted, remains to be seen.
According to Mr. Deepak Jotwani, Assistant Vice
President, ICRA Ltd, "Iran is a major export destination for Indian Basmati rice and decline in demand from Iran has played a role in the
declining realisations of exports from India - from $1298/MT in FY2014 to $784/MT in 8M FY2017."
Iran is amongst the major importers of Basmati rice from India. However, over the years,
the Iranian Government has imposed a ban on import of Basmati rice from time to time, as per the movement in inventory held by
its rice traders and also to safeguard the interests of its local farmers. Iran last imposed a ban on import of Basmati rice in July 2016. Given that the ban
persisted against industry expectations, the Government of India (GoI) sent a trade delegation to Iran in January 2017 to resolve the issue.
Following this, it was expected that the import ban would be
removed soon. While there has been no official notification from Iran, a group of large Basmati rice importers in Iran have recently capped the price of Basmati rice imports at $850/metric tonne (MT). In
another adverse development for the industry, the US has recently imposed fresh
trade sanctions on Iran, which restrains Iran's use of the US dollar for trade.
These two developments have created uncertainty around the resumption of Basmati rice exports to Iran
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Are large supermarkets
considerably cheaper than city centre express stores?
City centre
based stores like Tesco and Sainsbury's are undeniably convenient, but just how
much money are you paying for that convenience?
11:27, 18 FEB 2017
The supermarket - the shopping
behemoth whose combination of convenience and competitive pricing makes it
impossible to avoid.And while the likes of ASDA and Tesco have met stiff competition from both Aldi and Lidl over recent
years, there are still traditional supermarkets everywhere.
But as supermarkets were getting bigger and moving to out of town sites, over the
past decade they have also been downsizing and slowly creeping back to the high
street. Now you are rarely more than a stone's throw away from a
metropolitan-version of a Sainsburys or a Tesco in Manchester city centre.
Morrisons on Piccadilly Gardens (Photo: Google)
Tesco Express is hardly as
glamorous as Urban Outfitters or Pandora but how many cheese sandwiches for £1
do they sell in Urban Outfitters?
So, is shopping at these
extremely handy stores going to put you more out of pocket than a traditional
supermarket would?
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It depends...
We visited seven supermarkets -
three of which were normal stores and three metropolitan 'convenience stores'
in Manchester city centre and one Co-op. We purchased the same 12* items at
each store to see how prices varied.
The items:
·
250-300g mushrooms
·
3 pack of peppers
·
Heinz tomato ketchup
·
Quaker Oats Porridge 12 sachets
·
Heinz baked beans
·
Toilet roll 4 pack
·
6 medium free range eggs
·
500g Flora Light
·
350g Cathedral City mature cheddar
·
500g basmati rice
·
Fairy Liquid
·
Semi-skimmed milk 2 pints
Here's what we found
Comparing the
prices between the seven stores
Tesco (£14.25)Tesco Express (£14.65)Sainsbury's
(£14.70)Sainsbury's Local (£15.65)Co-op (£17)Morrisons (£15.01)Morrisons'
Piccadilly Gardens (£14.27)Stores05101520Cost in pounds
The reason that the 'local' or
'express' stores can be marginally more expensive is largely due to location.
Addressing the matter,
Sainsbury's state "Different sizes of stores have very different
operational requirements and running costs. Rents, for example, are often more
expensive in our smaller stores due to their locations.
"It can also be more of a
challenge to deliver products to our local stores. These, and other factors
such as staffing, local rates and a focus on convenience products mean there
are differences in price between our supermarkets and local stores."
Tesco say something similar:
"Unfortunately, due to the higher costs involved in operating our Express
stores there is a small premium on a number of products.
"We aim to absorb as many of
these costs as possible and try very hard to keep pricing differences to an
absolute minimum. Our aim is to be competitive and to offer our customers
quality products at the best possible prices in comparison to other convenience
stores."
In short, you are paying for
convenience. The prices between local branches can also vary. The shopping list
at the Sainsbury's Local at Piccadilly station was just over a pound more
expensive than it was at the Sainsbury's Local store on Quay Street.
So abandoning a normal
supermarket in favour of these would not be smart for saving money at all.
*Where Andrex toilet roll wasn't
available (Sainsbury's and Co-op), store brand was used instead.
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/shopping/sainsburys-local-tesco-express-comparison-12609799
