The Consorzio Agrario dell’Emilia and S.I.S. (Società Italiana Sementi S.p.a.) in collaboration with Bonifiche Ferraresi S.p.a., organized the Rice Technical Seminar, that was hold on September 12th in the field “Ex Court Neghelli”, along the road between Tresigallo and Jolanda di Savoia. The day included a visit to experimental fields related to the “Programma RISO SIS 2016/2017”. This […]

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 […]