Researchers say they can improve rice harvests and grain quality by essentially turning off a temperature-sensitive gene ...

Chinese research team's investigation into cold-tolerant rice varieties revives largely-forgotten 19th century 'giraffe ...

The study adds to evidence challenging the dominance of ‘natural selection’ as the sole adaptive force in evolution.

Researchers at UC Davis and UC Berkeley's Innovative Genomics Institute have found a way ... If the hybrid plants could reproduce asexually, farmers could save seed from one year to the next. How to ...

JONESBORO -- On the third floor of the Arkansas ... she modified rice using a gene from a plant that belongs to the mustard family. The gene, she found, made rice more resistant to salty soils ...

They smell like normal rice ... found that by genetically engineering everyday species to produce large amounts of this antiporter, he was able to breed plants that could grow in water a third ...

In China, a study found that extreme rainfall had reduced ... Some years, when the rains are paltry, rice farmers don’t even plant a third rice crop, as they had before, or they switch to ...

UC Davis researchers have discovered a way to grow cereal crops, like rice and wheat, with less nitrogen fertilizer ... a distinguished professor of plant sciences, who has found a new pathway for ...

Though the team found the amount of inorganic arsenic in rice is higher than a lot of other plants, it’s still quite low overall. The key variable is how much rice a person eats. If you are ...

the genes responsible for inducing parthenogenesis were initially discovered in plants capable of natural apomixis. In this study, researchers found that the rice endogenous gene OsWUS could be ...

All pots were watered once or twice a day. Rice plants did grow in the synthetic Mars dirt, the team found. However, the plants developed slighter shoots and wispier roots than the plants that ...