IRRI researcher Melissa Fitzgerald says finding the genes which control starch release is just the first step toward creating a grain that people will accept as part of their diet.

VOA: standard.2010.06.25

Researchers compared the use of fertilizer in three areas that grow maize as a major grain: China,Kenya and the United States.

VOA: special.2009.07.28

A crowd of about 1,000 marched to a nearby store, broke into it, and destroyed large amounts of flour and grain.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

And even in the conservative grain-farming states, two hundred thousand farmers joined a group that called for major economic changes.

VOA: special.2010.12.09

Armstrong began to describe what he saw: "The surface appears to be very, very fine grain,like a powder.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

Like Ceres there is sitting on a McCormick reaper, which is the new way for reaping grain quickly.

VOA: special.2010.01.27

Farmers had a new way to send wheat and grain to ports.

VOA: special.2010.01.11

Australia is a major food exporter, and if drought dramatically cuts yields, that could cause global prices for grain,meat and other foods to rise.

VOA: standard.2009.09.03

Russia's Grain Producers Union recently forecast a 20 percent drop in the nation's grain harvest.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

Since 2008 the United States has not sold a single grain of rice to Cuba.

VOA: standard.2010.07.29

The Philippines this week said it is cutting rice imports because of high prices, even though the country lost more than a million tons of grain to typhoons this year.

VOA: standard.2009.12.17

In the year 2000, the United States did ease the agricultural export ban to Cuba, but a later tightening of policy, to require advance cash payments, choked off Cuban purchases of US grain.

VOA: standard.2010.07.29

"And so once we understand the genetics, we can try and just take those particular genes and work with popular varieties of rice to cross those particular genes into a popular variety and still maintain the expected cooking and eating qualities of the grain."

VOA: standard.2010.06.25