1. Mitigating cold stress in rice: a study of genotype performance and sowing time
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Yasser Z. El-Refaee, Hany S. Gharib, Shimaa A. Badawy, Eman M. Elrefaey, Samira A.F. El-Okkiah, Mohamed K. Okla, María Gabriela Maridueña-Zavala, Hamada AbdElgawad, and Amira M. El-Tahan
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Climate change ,Cold tolerance ,Rice genotypes ,Global food security ,Botany ,QK1-989 - Abstract
Abstract Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is an essential food for half of the global population and is vital in maintaining global food security. Climate change, increasing population and recent incident of COVID pandemic has generated financial burden and threaten the global food security. Due to theses factors rice cultivation also has to face significant challenges. frequent weather changes pose a considerable challenge to agricultural planning, which was previously relaying on consistent seasonal variations. In this context, rice cultivation is particularly sensitive to cold, where its development and productivity inhibited by low temperatures (
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- 2024
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