Transcript: 'Super Rice' Deploys Snorkel To Survive Floods

MELISSA BLOCK
NPR All Things Considered
08-20-2009
'Super Rice' Deploys Snorkel To Survive Floods

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Time 21:00-22:00 PM


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From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Melissa Block.

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Scientists are racing to develop strains of super rice. The idea is to prevent deadly famines. Researchers say tough, highly-productive rice plants offer the best hope for feeding a world population that will reach nine billion by 2050.

As NPR's Jon Hamilton reports, the quest to create super rice is producing a lot of scientific papers on rice genetics.

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JON HAMILTON: In the rice fields of ...

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