IRRI's director, is daunting, and will take ten years or more.

ECONOMIST: Genetic modification

IRRI's crop scientists, plans to screen the institute's collection of 6, 000 varieties of wild rice to see if any of them display a predisposition for C4 photosynthesis.

ECONOMIST: Genetic modification

The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) said in a blog post that "even where the soil is contaminated with a lead spill, a number of studies have shown that rice plants do not take up a significant amount of lead and move it to the grains".

BBC: Study of lead levels in rice under scrutiny