Because of low rainfall and lack of irrigation infrastructure, water management is often not an option for...
Breeding and improvement
A new, faster, and more accurate way of identifying infectious organisms—down to their genetic fingerprint—could finally put...
Do rice plants have a wild adaptive trait that is counterproductive to aerobic cropping systems?
For thousands of Bangladeshi farmers in flood-prone areas, growing rice is a risk they have to take...
With the right tools, ordinary people can be extraordinary agents of change.
Recent advances with the CRISPR system— the world’s most promising gene-editing tool—could increase the speed of rice...
The emerging field of plant phenomics combines biology, engineering, and data analytics to overcome laborious, expensive, and,...
Scientists are looking at an innovative approach and a potential strategy to make rice resistant against pathogens...
Opportunities exist to improve the nutritional content of rice varieties to solve the micronutrient-deficiency problem affecting more...
A recent technology is giving rice scientists a new weapon for fighting the notorious brown planthoppers: a...
