Cooperative Research Centre for Sustainable Rice Production: Recent submissions
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Understanding Amylose Structure, What It Controls And What Controls It.
Published 2005-10-20Starch accounts for at least 92% (dry weight) of a milled rice grain. Starch is comprised of two fractions, amylose and amylopectin. Amylose content can range from 0% (in waxy rice) to about 30%. Amylose is essentially a ...Open AccessOther -
Improving the Water Use Efficiency of Rice - Final Report
Published 2005-10-20The cost of irrigation water accounts for 20-30% of the total variable costs of rice production in the Murrumbidgee and Murray Valleys. Rice production consumes a substantial proportion of the available supply of irrigation ...Open AccessOther -
Strategies for Improving the Water Use Efficiency of Rice
Published 2005-10-20The cost of irrigation water accounts for 30-38% of the total variable costs of rice production in the Murray and Murrumbidgee Valleys. Rice production consumes a substantial proportion of the available supply of irrigation ...Open AccessOther -
Modeling Irrigated Cropping systems with Special Attention to Rice Wheat Sequences and Rice Bed Planting
Published 2005-10-20The rice-wheat cropping systems of the Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGP) are of immense importance for food security for south Asia. Over the past 40 years the increase in rice and wheat production has kept pace with population ...Open AccessReport, Technical -
Surface-Groundwater Iteraction Model of the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area (Development of the Hydrogeological Databases)
Published 2002-08-01This brief discussion paper documents key points arising from the Overseas Visit (24-28 June 2002) to the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) Joint Research Unit – Innovation in Montpellier, France1. The ...Open AccessReport, Technical