On 30th September Xavier Serrat, IP from Neurice, defended his PhD “Applied biotechnology to improve Mediterranean rice varieties”. It was developed as an Industrial Doctorate project between Barcelona University and Càmera Arrossera del Montsià. This work, that was the basis for the Neurice project, received the Cum Laude distinction.

IRTA researcher Mar Català attended the XXV International Congress of Entomology organized by the Entomological Society of America. It was hold in Orlando (USA) on from 25th to 30 August. Català presented a conference at the Symposium Global Challenges in Rice Pest Management “New approaches to midge management in temperate direct-seeded rice“. Català also met the […]

  NEURICE was present at the 14th International Symposium on Rice Functional Genomics (ISRFG) 2016, in Montpellier (France), with a poster from University of Milan titled “Phenotyping of a worldwide japonica rice collection under salt stress treatment for association study”.   Download pdf  

On September 7th, the Centre Français du Riz organised its yearly open field day, named Prémices du Riz. A hundred of French rice growers and professionals of the sector attended this event. After a presentation of the rice crop season, the varieties, and the ongoing field trials and projects (GreenRice, NEURICE), a formal partnership agreement […]

On August 25th, IRTA organized the rice “Open field day”, an annual event that aimed to show to the attendees (more than 200) new ways to improve their rice crops,  as well as alternative ways of field management. Also, it held a rich debate between technicians and rice farmers. On this day, Mar Català from IRTA presented […]