The Joint FAO/IAEA Division of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture has helped Malaysia’s nuclear agency, Nuclear Malaysia, to develop many improved crop varieties that are more tolerant to climate change. Recently, the Joint FAO/IAEA Division supported scientists from Nuclear Malaysia to strengthen human capacities to develop improved rice varieties and to promote and disseminate a high-yielding rice variety to farmers. The new rice mutant variety, NMR152, was developed by Nuclear Malaysia through mutation breeding techniques. This and many other stories are included in the July 2020 newsletter from the Plant Breeding and Genetics Section of the Joint FAO/IAEA Division. The 40-page newsletter gives an overview of their past and upcoming events, ongoing projects and publications and is issued twice a year. See http://www-naweb.iaea.org/nafa/pbg/public/newsletters-pbg.html or contact [email protected] for more information.