On May 12, volunteers on the World Community Grid started crunching the numbers on a new project. Nutritious Rice for the World is an ambitious and long-term project to help farmers breed better rice strains. Currently, farmers can only select for traits that are readily apparent. The Nutritious Rice research team hopes to be able to place biological markers that would allow farmers to breed rice with more complicated traits, such as nutritional content or the ability to thrive in different environments.