As the USDA reports, rice is a primary food staple for more than half the world's population. So any breakthrough that ...

By boosting beneficial microbes, researchers hope to increase crop resilience while reducing the use of synthetic nitrogen ...

Rice feeds more than half of the world’s population, but the tiny microbes living on and around rice plants may be just as ...

Planthoppers and leafhoppers not only feed on rice plants but also act as highly efficient vectors for plant viruses, causing ...

Scientists tested rice under record heatwaves and found that hotter soils by themselves did not cause dangerous spikes in ...

A great rice cooker can change the way you handle weeknight meals. Instead of watching the pot or dealing with uneven results, you get fluffy, consistent rice with almost no effort. Modern rice ...

Can gene editing truly support smallholder farmers and help Indonesia achieve food sovereignty, or will it simply revive the ...

Venkatesan Sundaresan and Imtiyaz Khanday have already moved on to maize, millets. ‘What works with rice is potentially ...

A research team led by Hiroshima University and Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology have proposed a neuroendocrine mechanism in bony fish that signals ovulation from the ovaries to the ...

Researchers identified a gene, OsSRS3, crucial for rice grain size and shape. Mutants lacking a working copy had oval grains, ...

Nonbinding Letter of Intent (LOI) sets framework for potential 2027 market entry in Ecuador and Colombia, followed by ...