Western diets make up most of South Africa’s food systems. This displaces indigenous crops and edible forest plants. The problems created by westernised diets include environmental damage caused by ...

A new study, appearing in Nature Genetics and led by researchers at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST ...

BEIJING -- Chinese scientists have devised a detailed map of wild and cultivated rice genes, providing resources for the ...

A rice pangenome map has been constructed that incorporates the genomes of nearly 150 wild and cultivated rice varieties.

Intensifying heat waves, extreme floods and forest fires have devastated parts of Southeast Asia in recent years, spurring ...

Eaten every day by billions of people and grown across the globe, rice is arguably the planet’s most important staple crop, ...

Rice feeds more than half of the world’s population. Climate change is loading the beloved grain with arsenic, creating a ...

A study has constructed an unprecedented pangenome map of wild and cultivated rice, and decoded the genetic architecture and ...

"Rice can soak up more arsenic than any other food crop," Wagner stated. When the brown rice soaks up this inorganic arsenic, it becomes highly concentrated in that tan layer — which means that ...

However, a study by Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), Ludhiana, reveals a contrasting reality: no more than 30 per cent of the state’s geographical area (15.28 lakh hectares) is suitable for ...

The rice paddy used in a science experiment by a ... technology that can minimize yield reductions and stabilize crop quality. The team's findings were published in late March in the online ...

Farmers in Andhra Pradesh shifted from monocropping to crop diversification, with micro-irrigation reducing ... This is exactly what Nakkala is now doing — preparing his land for winter rice. Unlike ...