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.

picture alliance/picture alliance/Getty Images ... Finally, they sprouted these rice plants alongside unmodified rice and rice with the OsDREB1C gene suppressed. Unlike golden rice and other ...

How to Make Rice Water For Plants Rice water is easy to make, requiring only rice, water, and common kitchen items like a bowl, pot, and fine-mesh strainer. You can use any type of rice, such as ...

Chinese researchers recently uncovered molecular evidence supporting Lamarckism—a long-debated theory from the early 19th ...

(Getty Images) An international team has succeeded in propagating ... at the UC Davis departments of Plant Biology and Plant Sciences achieved apomixis in rice plants, with about 30% of seeds being ...

The rice plant and soil microorganisms have a collaborative relationship. The plant releases organic carbon through its roots, which feeds the microbes, which release nutrients that sustain the rice.

India, Vietnam, and China are among the group of eight nations that lead the rest of the world in rice exports. After nearly a decade of observing and analyzing the growth of the plants ...

A new variety of rice created by simple crossbreeding could reduce the crop’s emissions of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, by nearly three-quarters. Rice growing is responsible for around 12 ...

A common sunscreen ingredient, zinc nanoparticles, may help protect rice from heat-related stress, an increasingly common problem under climate change. Zinc is known to play an important role in ...