Benjavan Rerkasem

TL;DR: Foliar Zn spray offers a practical and useful means for an effective biofortification of rice grain with Zn and consistently contributed to increases in grain Zn of rice irrespective of cultivars, environmental conditions and management practices in 5 different countries.

TL;DR: Bue Chomee rice shows slight but significant genetic differentiation among Karen villages which conforms to an isolation by distance model of differentiation, suggesting that landrace rice is a dynamic genetic system that responds to evolutionary forces, both natural and those imposed by humans.

TL;DR: This review considers the extent of variation in B efficiency in plant species and genotypes, the physiological nature of the efficiency mechanisms, what is known of the genetic basis for inheritance, screening techniques and the practical implications of the genotypic variations.

TL;DR: Wheat production in the world’s growing areas on low B soils should greatly benefit from increasing B efficiency in internationally important germplasm, as a few B efficient advanced breeding lines have already been identified and B efficiency is under the control of major genes.

TL;DR: Zinc in rice grains can be effectively raised by foliar Zn application after flowering, with a potential benefit of this to rice eaters indicated by up to 55% increases of brown rice Zn, and agronomically in more rapid early growth and establishment.