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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

His team used CRISPR to enhance apigenin breakdown in rice. They found that apigenin and other compounds induced nitrogen fixation in bacteria. Nitrogen is essential for plant growth, but plants ...