Rice
Rice is a cereal grain and in its domesticated form is the staple food of over half of the world's population, particularly in Asia and Africa. Rice is the seed of the grass species Oryza sativa —or, much less commonly, Oryza glaberrima. Asian rice was domesticated in China some 13,500 to 8,200 years ago; African rice was domesticated in Africa about 3,000 years ago. Rice has become commonplace in many cultures worldwide; in 2023, 800 million tons were produced, placing it third after sugarcane and maize. Only some 8% of rice is traded internationally. China, India, and Indonesia are the largest consumers of rice. A substantial amount of the rice produced in developing nations is lost after harvest through factors such as poor transport and storage. Rice yields can be reduced by pests including insects, rodents, and birds, as well as by weeds, and by diseases such as rice blast. Traditional rice polycultures such as rice-duck farming, and modern integrated pest management seek to control damage from pests in a sustainable way.
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Editing strigolactone hormone receptor for robust antiviral silenci...
It points toward a new generation of disease-resistant rice that could protect harvests for billi...
Cold-induced peptide signalling secures pollen resilience and crop yield.
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Gene editing makes sterile rice hybrids fertile by disabling a poll...
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The OsNTL3-WRKY53-CatA module confers thermotolerance in rice.
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Natural variation in the ORL4 promoter regulates rice leaf rolling ...
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Conserved and divergent gene regulatory networks for crop drought r...
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OsELP Mediated Apoplastic Sequestration in Roots Acts as an Arsenic...
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Rice2035: A decadal vision for rice research and breeding.
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High nitrogen-induced changes in rhizosphere microbial community st...
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Post-Heading High Nighttime Temperature Impairs Grain Protein-Starc...
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Long-Term Biochar Application Enhances Carbon-Phosphorus Costabiliz...
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Spatially Optimized Nutrient Management as a Climate-Resilient Stra...
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OsFT coordinates photosynthetic stability and carotenoid metabolism...
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CRISPR/Cas Genome Editing and Its Applications in Cereal Crop Improvement.
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The plastic stomatal development in grasses and its implications in...
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Starvation as a weapon in fungal-plant warfare.
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Harnessing diverse tRNAs and AI-guided mining for compact and effic...
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From Green Revolution to Multigene Revolution: Breeding High-Yield ...
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OsHMA7 mediates copper transport into the chloroplast to maintain p...
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Cytoplasmic and mitochondrial citrate synthases mediate cadmium det...
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Plant-microbiome interactions are associated with enhanced salinity...
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OsMYB306-OsRAV11 Regulates Resistance of Rice to Striped Stem Borer...
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Scientists find the sensor plants use to smell fungus
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Conserved and Divergent: Salicylic Acid Biosynthesis and Signaling ...
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Decoding heterosis in rice: from classical theories to modern omics...
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Challenges in Bringing Pangenome Research Into Breeding: A Case Stu...
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Plants build tiny protein sunscreens to survive scorching sunlight
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MicroRNA networks in rice seeds: unveiling key regulators of develo...
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Characterization of Grain Quality and Starch Properties of Rice und...
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Enhancing CRISPR-Cas12a base editing in plants with LbCas12a varian...
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Biochar and melatonin alleviate microplastic-cadmium (MP-Cd) stress...
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Signal transduction and regulatory networks of the rice root system...
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An improved Agrobacterium-mediated transformation method for genome...
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Functional Conservation and Diversity of Phytochrome B and its Pote...
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Rice straw biochar differently influences the availability and upta...
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Crop biofortification for global food security: advances in genetic...
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HDAC-mediated non-histone deacetylation as a central regulatory net...
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Recent advances in miRNAs mediated agronomical advantageous traits ...
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Phosphorus-arsenic interaction mitigates toxicity and accumulation ...
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Assessing climate change effects on streamflow and paddy production...
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Allelic variation in UVR8 modulates thermotolerance-yield tradeoffs...
Rice paddies that feed half the world are quietly losing their battle with climbing temperatures ...
Harnessing salt tolerance and C4-like traits from the halophyte wil...
Rice paddies in coastal Bangladesh, Vietnam, and the Philippines are already losing ground to sal...
The ELD4-OsPRR95 module represses OsMADS51 in regulating rice heading date.
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Molecular basis of delayed leaf senescence induced by short-term tr...
The rice in your grocery store could be grown with less phosphorus fertilizer — and stay producti...
Rice gene discovery could reduce need for fungicide sprays
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Turning off one rice gene cuts toxic cadmium in grains
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Turning off one rice gene cuts toxic cadmium buildup in grain
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Fungi disable rice's defenses by destroying one key protein switch
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A gene unique to rice makes crops drought-tough across species
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A domestication gene links plant architecture and nitrogen metaboli...
Foxtail millet — the drought-tough ancient grain making a quiet comeback in heritage seed catalog...
Differential regulation of cadmium accumulation by root microbiomes...
If you grow vegetables in urban soil built on industrial fill, the bacteria your plant roots recr...
Triacontanol-biochar synergy regulates redox homeostasis and stress...
Rare earth metals from discarded electronics and industrial waste are quietly building up in farm...
Biochar-mediated improvements in soil fertility and wheat (Triticum...
That smoke haze hanging over South Asian fields each autumn represents 500–900 million tons of cr...
Genome-wide identification of the ARR-B gene family and functional ...
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ORANGE: a tale of two pigments and two organelles.
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Cover Cropping-Mediated Regulation of Phyllosphere Microbial Health...
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Microbial community insights into antimicrobial rice-straw lignin f...
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A synthetic guide RNA scaffold enhanced CRISPR/Cas9 editing efficie...
Tomatoes engineered to resist drought, rice bred to fight blight without pesticides, and vegetabl...
Precision-engineered starch: Integrating metabolic engineering and ...
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Artificial Humic Acid Derived from Microorganisms Promotes Root Gro...
Gardeners and farmers who already compost with straw may soon have access to a supercharged soil ...
Molecular Chaperone Networks in Plants: Maintaining Proteostasis an...
When a heat wave hits your garden mid-summer and your tomatoes drop their blossoms or your lettuc...
Harnessing plant growth-promoting bacteria for nanoparticle biosynt...
Same friendly bacteria already living in healthy garden soil could soon be harnessed to protect y...
Enterobacter cloacae-loaded biochar suppresses cadmium accumulation...
Rice paddies on cadmium-contaminated land — and there are millions of acres of them — could becom...
Gene-edited rice packs more nutrition and better flavor
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Climate change impacts on the life-cycle phenology of rice planthop...
Rice paddies across East Asia are losing a natural buffer that once slowed pest cycles — and that...
Wild rice Oryza rufipogon outperforms cultivated rice in stimulatin...
Wild rice growing along riverbanks and wetland edges has spent millennia perfecting a hidden part...
Characteristics of the C4 bundle sheath emerge in C3 rice after edi...
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Improving low-phosphate tolerance via tissue-specific CRISPR/Cas9 k...
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A Conserved DT2-bZIP66-NF-YC4 Regulatory Module Confers Drought Tol...
Rice paddies already stressed by shifting monsoons could stay productive longer if breeders activ...
A data-light composite climate resilience index reveals superior dr...
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Biochar and zinc oxide nanoparticles partnership: a multi-faceted s...
Rice paddies worldwide sit on soils contaminated by mining and industrial runoff, and the grains ...
Molecular characterization of superoxide dismutase (SOD) genes for ...
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Fat droplets in plant cells fight off viruses naturally
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TKC-MC: An Effective Strategy for Generating Heritable Heterozygous...
Understanding which genes keep crops alive and healthy is a key step toward breeding rice and oth...
Whole-genome characterization of halotolerant Enterobacter roggenka...
Rice paddies treated with this naturally occurring soil microbe pushed germination rates from 42%...
Agro-based biochars combined with nitrogen fertilizer improve soil ...
Charred kitchen scraps or garden waste mixed into your vegetable beds can make fertilizer work ha...
Divergent mechanisms of zinc and manganese in controlling cadmium t...
Rice grown in contaminated southern Chinese soils is a leading global source of dietary cadmium e...
Harnessing nano-engineered iron-silicon nanoparticles to modulate c...
Rice paddies on contaminated land near old industrial sites are a quiet source of cadmium in the ...
Combined organic amendments reduce Cd accumulation in double-croppi...
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Spatiotemporal evolution of climatic resources and their impacts on...
Rice paddies in eastern China are quietly reorganizing themselves around a climate that no longer...
Factors influencing methane emissions in rice paddies using alterna...
Rice paddies are one of the largest human-managed sources of greenhouse gas on Earth, and smarter...
The rice DEAD-box RNA helicase OseIF4AIIa associates with the CCR4-...
Understanding how rice survives drought, cold snaps, and salty soils could help scientists breed ...
Revitalizing contaminated soils: The combined power of modified bio...
If you've ever wondered whether the scrubby lot next to a gas station or old factory could ever g...
Knockout of OsRbohD (the NADPH Oxidase Gene) Enhances Saline-Alkali...
Vast stretches of farmland worldwide are becoming too salty and alkaline to grow food — and this ...
Functional specialization of two jasmonic acid-amido synthetases in...
Rice paddy fields are quietly locked in an arms race with tiny sap-sucking insects called brown p...
Dual repression of OsSnRK1β1A by the deubiquitinase OsOTUB1 orchest...
Rice feeds more than half the world's population, and every grain on a panicle — that feathery se...
The genetic and regulatory framework of cuticular wax formation: in...
Every kernel of wheat, grain of rice, and ear of corn that survives a dry summer does so partly b...
Natural variation of CTS1 confers cold tolerance and blast resistan...
Rice feeds half the world, and the gene variants discovered here could help farmers in cold, dise...
NUTCRACKER orchestrates cortical cell divisions and sustains stem c...
Rice feeds over half the world's population, and roots with well-organized stem cells absorb wate...
Mitochondrial-Nuclear Interactions, Co-Transcription, and Adaptive ...
Every hybrid seed packet you buy—whether for corn, canola, or sunflowers—exists because breeders ...
Mercury Sulfide Nanoparticles Constitute a Long-Term Bioavailable P...
Rice paddies near old mining or industrial sites may be accumulating a hidden form of mercury tha...
Base editing in rice using nuclease-deactivated CRISPR/Cas-SF01.
Rice feeds more than half the world's population, and this more precise editing tool could accele...
Crops can be tuned to grow well without sacrificing toughness
The tomatoes and corn you rely on for dinner could soon need less fertilizer while shrugging off ...
The transcription factor OsbHLH55 regulates leaf inclination throug...
The rice in your grocery store could become more abundant and cheaper as breeders use discoveries...
Waxy leaf coatings can be gene-edited to keep crops drought-resilient
Every drought-stressed plant in your garden is fighting water loss through its skin, not just its...
Rice detects planthopper spit and fights back
Rice feeds more than half the world's population, and this discovery of a natural defense trigger...
Selenium in soil triggers rice roots to lock out toxic metals
Rice grown in contaminated soils quietly delivers cadmium and arsenic to dinner tables worldwide,...
Genotype-specific optimization of in vitro regeneration and Agrobac...
Rice on your dinner plate — especially fragrant varieties like jasmine-style Indian rices — could...
Diversity, antibacterial and phytotoxic activities of culturable gu...
Weeds like barnyardgrass are becoming resistant to common herbicides, and these dragonfly gut fun...
Turmeric mitochondria fed to mice reach the brain and reverse aging...
Turmeric growing in your garden or sitting in your spice cabinet carries living cellular machiner...
This rice gene switch helps plants shrug off heat waves
Rice feeds more than half the world's population, and as summers get hotter, understanding how so...
Gene editing gives rice a fighting chance against drought and disease
Rice feeds more than half the world's people, and the breeding advances reviewed here could mean ...
Rice summons pest-killing wasps by sniffing out which bug laid the eggs
Rice fields across Asia may already be running a chemical communication network that calls in all...
Disabling one rice protein keeps arsenic out of the grain
Rice grown in arsenic-tainted paddies — a widespread problem across South and Southeast Asia — ab...
Earlier sowing and a boron spray more than doubles field pea yields
Field peas sown in your garden in late autumn rather than early winter face the same hidden press...
A comparative framework for trichome and trichome-derived epidermal...
Salt-tolerant wild plants have tiny surface structures that actively filter salt out of their tis...
Mixing biochar and silicon fertilizer cuts antibiotic resistance in...
Rice grown in paddies treated with common soil amendments can carry invisible microbial hitchhike...
Himalayan farming zones face diverging drought and flood risks as c...
The tea in your cup likely came from a region where rainfall has measurably declined and drought ...
Gene editing offers a faster path to tougher, climate-ready crops
The tomatoes and rice on your plate could soon come from plants engineered to survive the salty, ...
Editing three rice genes together produces dramatically saltier soi...
As coastal farmland and irrigation water grow saltier worldwide, this kind of gene-stacking appro...
Switchgrass transcription factor PvATAF2 plays positive roles in pl...
Cold spring soil is one of the main reasons your vegetable seedlings stall out after transplantin...
Regulating Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Permissiveness.
Every tomato, pepper, and herb you grow benefits from these same ancient fungal partnerships unde...
Negative Regulators of Rice Agronomic Traits: Functional Insights a...
Every bowl of rice you eat is shaped by thousands of years of breeding, but a new class of gene t...
Root-hugging soil microbes help grain crops survive drought
The bread wheat or cornmeal in your pantry depends on root partnerships with fungi and bacteria t...
Fine-tuning quantitative agronomic traits by manipulating gene copy...
Rice breeders now have a dial, not just an on/off switch — meaning the bowl of rice you eat could...
Flooding rice paddies at the right time slashes grain cadmium
If you've ever wondered why rice carries health warnings in some regions, the timing of a farmer'...
Iron-titanium oxide-engineered biochar mitigates antimony and nicke...
Biochar made with iron and titanium oxides offers a practical soil amendment tool for growers wor...
Foliar Spraying of Silica Nanoparticles Outperforms Its Soil Amendm...
Rice grown in arsenic-contaminated paddies quietly concentrates that arsenic into the grain you e...
Sustained grain cadmium reduction in rice-wheat rotation: A cost-ef...
Limestone — the same material gardeners use to sweeten acidic soil — turns out to be a powerful, ...
Soil microbes control how much arsenic ends up in rice
If you grow rice or buy it at the store, the microbes living in flooded paddy soil are quietly de...
Breaking one rice gene made plants far more drought hardy
If you've ever watched a garden crop wilt during a dry spell, this points to the exact molecular ...
Addressing global hotspots of drought-related crop production losses.
Drought hotspots in the central US, eastern Brazil, and South Asia are already quietly shrinking ...
Green manure and straw make lime fight rice cadmium better
If you grow anything in soil with a sketchy history, like an old urban lot or a plot near industr...
Organic fertilizer regulates multispecies biofilm formation and str...
Compost and organic amendments you add to garden beds don't just feed your plants — they're quiet...
Deleting one rice gene makes plants far more salt-tolerant
Salty soil is quietly taking farmland out of rice production worldwide, and knowing exactly which...
Nanobiochar Mitigates Photosynthetic Impairment in Rice Caused by A...
Rice paddies downstream from farms and hospitals absorb antibiotic runoff through their roots — a...
Decoding heavy metal tolerance in rice: Nucleic acid-based technolo...
Rice paddies grown in soils with even trace heavy metal pollution quietly concentrate cadmium and...
Soil bacteria plus a plant hormone cut cadmium in rice
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Coated rice seeds poison bees worse than pesticide sprays do
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Removing a molecular brake made rice plants yield more
The rice on dinner tables worldwide could get a genetic tune-up from this discovery, since engine...
Effects and mechanisms of different organic manure on minimizing ca...
The compost pile in your backyard isn't just about fertility — what you add to contaminated soil ...
Spatiotemporal regulation of arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis at ce...
Every tomato, pepper, and squash in your garden is quietly negotiating with soil fungi right now ...
AMF-mediated root redistribution decreases Cd uptake in rice while ...
Soil contaminated with cadmium — from old mining sites, industrial runoff, or certain fertilizers...
PCdb: A comprehensive plant genome-editing database integrating sgR...
The rice, wheat, and vegetables you eat could be made more nutritious, drought-resilient, or dise...
Shared fungal signals steer corn borers across related grass crops
Corn, sugarcane, rice, and wheat share a chemical alarm system that a common soil fungus can expl...
Glycolysis Dominates Over Photorespiration in Governing Oxalate Acc...
The tart bite of wood sorrel on a trail walk and the gritty feeling spinach leaves on your teeth ...
Biochar fixes cadmium contamination but may release stored soil carbon
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Cytokinin histidine kinase receptors regulate multiple aspects of r...
Grasses from your backyard lawn to ornamental bamboo share the same hormonal wiring this study ju...
Scientists map rice development cell by cell, start to finish
The rice on your plate took a precisely choreographed path from seed to seed, and this map of tha...
AI tool predicts better crop genes, testing just ten variants
The rice on your plate and the barley in your garden beds could soon come from varieties bred fas...
Engineered charcoal helps rice fight metal and plastic pollution
If you grow food anywhere near old industrial land, mining runoff, or roadside soil, this points ...
Scientists map rice's hidden defenses against extreme heat
The rice that feeds more than half the world's population loses grain quality and yield when flow...
Plant heat survival tricks all serve one shared goal
The tomatoes that stop setting fruit during a heat wave and the lettuce that bolts in July are bo...
Shared molecular switches let rice balance light, sugar, and nitrog...
Growing rice in a backyard paddy or community garden means watching a plant run three metabolic p...
Improving root-soil adaptability by modifying root system architect...
Rice roots engineered to dig deeper or branch smarter could cut water use on the paddy fields tha...
The GSK3/SHAGGY-like OsGSK3 phosphorylates and inhibits phase separ...
Rice breeders now have a new molecular dial — the OsFCA protein — that simultaneously controls gr...
Techno-Economic and Environmental Assessment of Magnesium-Impregnat...
Rice fields treated with nutrient-loaded biochar like this could need less synthetic fertilizer —...
Soil amendments impact hydroxyl radicals production in paddy soil: ...
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Gain-of-function CCaMK in rice overrides genetic and anatomical bar...
Almost every vegetable, fruit tree, and wildflower in your garden relies on invisible fungal thre...
The Transcription Factor OsWRKY30 Regulates Rice Resistance to Sout...
Rice paddies across Southeast Asia are losing entire harvests to a virus spread by planthoppers —...
Synergistic HMGN1 and VP64 Fusions Potentiate High-Precision and PA...
Rice breeders working to develop drought-tolerant or disease-resistant varieties just gained a to...
Insights into the genetic basis of natural selection and domesticat...
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Rice ethylene receptors OsERS1/2 function as Ca2+-permeable channel...
Rice paddy roots growing through waterlogged soil now turn out to use a built-in calcium 'volume ...
Comprehensive Analysis of OsENTH Genes and Functional Characterizat...
Understanding how rice pollen works at the genetic level could help breeders develop more reliabl...
Abiotic Methane Production Driven by Soil Reactive Oxygen Species.
Draining and reflooding your garden pond or a nearby restored wetland may be releasing more metha...
Gene-edited rice cooks softer without sacrificing yield or protein
The stickiness and texture of the rice on your plate comes down to specific proteins in the grain...
Straw biochar modulates manganese/cadmium enrichment in paddy algae...
If you grow rice or eat it regularly, the algae living in flooded paddies act as a natural filter...
Molecular bases and genetic improvement of rice grain size and qual...
Rice varieties you can actually taste a difference in — more nutritious, with better texture and ...
Paddycrusts: interfacial bioregulators of heavy metal transport and...
Rice grown in contaminated soils absorbs cadmium and arsenic into the grain you eat, and these li...
An F-box protein OsFKF1 interacts with either OsGI or Hd1 and media...
Rice paddies blanket more of Earth's farmed land than almost any other crop, and a single molecul...
One gene helps rice grains grow bigger and fill out fully
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CRISPR/Cas9 Mediated Genome Editing for Enhancing Abiotic Stress To...
Rice feeds half the world's population, and the droughts and salty soils creeping across growing ...
Loss-of-function of MIR172b and prime editing of SNB reveal a regul...
Rice paddies breeding cleistogamous varieties could produce seed that stays genetically pure seas...
Morpho-molecular profiling of rice (Oryza sativa L.) germplasm for ...
The rice varieties flooding researchers have now flagged as resilient are the ones most likely to...
Iron-treated charcoal slashes toxic metal in rice grains
Rice grown in soil near old tanneries or industrial sites can quietly absorb chromium, and this c...
Dissipation dynamics of fipronil in tropical paddy (Oryza sativa L....
Rice paddies managed with less water — a common drought-response strategy — linger longer with fi...
Blending rice and macadamia proteins creates a smoother, more funct...
Rice and macadamia, two crops grown across tropical and subtropical regions, turn out to be nutri...
Rice reprograms its own defenses against disease through chemical g...
Rice feeds half the world's population, and the fungi and bacteria that destroy rice crops are ge...
Disabling a rice gene makes seeds sprout prematurely in wet conditions
Rice fields that get hit by rain just before harvest can sprout right on the stalk, and understan...
Methylviologen resistance in loss-of-function mutants of the polyam...
Faster, cleaner gene-editing tools mean the rice on your plate could be bred to withstand drought...
Soil microbes help grain crops survive drought by rewriting plant chemistry
The wheat, corn, and rice feeding most of the world rely on invisible microbial communities in th...
AI blends sixty years of climate data to forecast Pakistan's harvests
Wheat and rice crops in climate-stressed regions are already being planned a decade out using AI ...
Evidence for Early Evolution of Sulfated Peptide Signaling in Plant...
The moss colonizing a shaded garden wall and every crop in a farmer's field share the same ancien...
Larger soil clumps are the main gatekeepers for plant-available phosphorus
The compost you work into your garden beds builds the kind of large, loose soil clusters that sci...
Decades of compost use rewires paddy soil's microbial workforce
If you've ever top-dressed a vegetable bed with compost instead of synthetic fertilizer, this lon...
Biochar source determines how well wheat roots absorb key minerals
Adding biochar to your garden soil isn't a one-size-fits-all fix; the material it's made from dec...
Grain crops use a hidden root-to-shoot chemical messenger system
The wheat, rice, and barley fields that make up most of the world's calories could become more dr...
Combining two soil additives keeps lead out of rice grains
If you grow food in soil near old roads, industrial sites, or painted structures, this shows a pr...
Co-variation among DOM components, Fe fractions, and Cd / As mobili...
Rice grown in contaminated paddies quietly accumulates cadmium and arsenic in the grain — underst...
Engineered silica cuts toxic cadmium in rice crops by 80%
If you grow vegetables in soil near old industrial or mining sites, a nutrient-loaded silica addi...
Bacteria-algae teamwork cuts fertilizer needs in rice fields
If you fuss over feeding your tomatoes or lawn, this points to a future where a living microbial ...
Cis-regulatory editing of SD1 promoter enhances TCP19-mediated repr...
Tall rice stalks snap in storms, flatten entire paddies overnight, and can wipe out a harvest tha...
Overexpression of the BAHD Acyltransferase-Like Protein gene OsDCR ...
Salt-damaged farmland is quietly swallowing rice paddies across South and Southeast Asia — the fi...
Optimized tRNA processing and TREX2-SpCas9 fusion enable high-effic...
Rice varieties that resist new blights, tolerate flooding, and need less fertilizer all at once h...
Rice roots dial down a growth signal to survive drought
If you've ever watched a plant seem to pause growth and toughen up during a dry spell, this is th...
Abscisic acid positively regulates rice spikelet closure.
Rice farmers and breeders lose significant yield when flower timing goes wrong during hybrid seed...
Bacillus tropicus KH90 induces systemic drought tolerance in rice: ...
Coating rice seeds with a naturally occurring soil microbe before planting could help small-scale...
Transcription factors in phosphorus utilization: enhancing crop pro...
Every bag of fertilizer you pour on your garden represents mined phosphorus, a finite resource we...
A plant compound traps and weakens a major rice disease fungus
Rice blast fungus destroys enough rice worldwide each year to feed tens of millions of people, so...
Zinc and manganese spray team up to cut cadmium in rice
If you grow vegetables in soil near old roads, industrial sites, or fertilizer-heavy fields, this...
Rice phosphate transporter reduces the low phosphate response throu...
Rice paddies worldwide get drenched in phosphate fertilizer partly because the plant panics and s...
Biochar plus organic fertilizer shrinks rice paddy greenhouse gases
If you've ever wondered why rice farming gets flagged as climate-unfriendly, this shows a simple ...
Photocaged abscisic acid enhances rice salt tolerance via sustained...
Rice paddies in coastal and arid regions are increasingly swamped by salt — and this light-activa...
One protein controls how plant roots host helpful fungi
The fungal partnerships thriving in your garden soil right now, helping tomatoes and perennials p...
Cadmium in returned rice straw disrupts soil carbon and nitrogen
If you compost garden waste or return crop residue to soil, this is a reminder that what's growin...
Boosting one rice gene creates a natural pest-repelling scent
The rice on your plate might one day need fewer pesticides thanks to a single gene that lets the ...
A tiny rice gene switch boosts grain size and delays sprouting
Rice that sprouts on the stalk before harvest is a costly problem for farmers worldwide, and this...
Rice gene uses a hormone signal to unlock pollen release
Anyone who's grown tomatoes, peppers, or beans knows a flower that won't release pollen never set...
Certain grain proteins tell your liver to make less sugar
The oats and barley you might grow or cook with contain proteins that feed specific gut bacteria,...
Plant cells use molecular editors to stay reproductive, not supportive
Every seed a plant produces starts with a cell that has to 'choose' to become reproductive instea...
Rice cells flip membrane fats to survive sudden heat
The rice feeding half the planet is grown in fields that increasingly hit damaging heat spikes du...
Rice fights salty soil by trimming the tails of its gene messages
Salt creeping into irrigated fields and coastal gardens is a growing problem, and the same tail-t...
Gene discovery could make foxtail millet shorter and sturdier
Foxtail millet feeds millions across Asia and Africa on land too poor for other crops, and a stoc...
Decoding how rice fights off the false smut fungus
Rice feeds half the planet, and false smut turns healthy grains into useless black spore balls, s...
Scientists map how crops sense heat to breed tougher varieties
The tomatoes that stop setting fruit during a summer heatwave in your backyard are responding to ...
Two rice genes found that control plant height and sturdiness
Rice that falls over in a storm loses its grain before harvest, and this discovery gives breeders...
Black rice's healthy pigments come with a hidden cost
If you grow heirloom black or purple rice, or just seek out specialty grains at the market, this ...
A single soil microbe helps rice fields emit less methane
Rice paddies are one of the biggest human-made sources of methane, so a fertilizer tweak that fee...
Gene-edited wheat gets a rice-like fragrant upgrade
If you've ever wondered why fragrant rice costs more and smells better at dinner, this same aroma...
Cadmium pollution makes a rice pest easier to kill
If you grow rice or care about how farmers manage pesticide use near contaminated soils, this sho...
Scientists find a better way to spot winning crop genes
The rice that resists flooding and the canola with richer oil both trace back to specific gene ve...
Melatonin spray lets rice farmers cut fertilizer without losing yield
If you grow vegetables or grains, this points to a way to get full harvests while using less fert...
This sorghum gene helps plants shrug off salty soil
If you've ever watched plants struggle near a salted sidewalk or in coastal soil, this gene point...
One big lime dose beats yearly treatments at trapping toxic cadmium
If you've ever wondered why soil pH matters for what ends up on your plate, this four-year rice s...
Young rice plants' scent signals attract more pests than older rice
If you grow rice, corn, or any grass-family crop, knowing that pests zero in on the leafy young-g...
Gene editing lets scientists fine-tune rice for better eating quality
The stickiness of your sushi rice, the fragrance of jasmine rice, and the chalky white spots that...
Cheaper DNA test spots gene-editing results in rice plants
Every bowl of rice grown from an edited seed had to pass a screening test somewhere along the way...
Rice genes labeled 'broken' turn out to control pollen fertility
The next time a tomato or squash plant sets fewer fruit than expected, the culprit could be a pol...
A tiny rice RNA molecule controls whether plants can make seeds
Rice feeds more than half the world's population, and understanding how this plant fine-tunes its...
AI rice disease detector now shows its reasoning, flags doubt
If you've ever snapped a photo of a sickly leaf and gotten a confident-sounding but wrong answer ...
Letting rice fields dry between waterings saves water without cutting yield
If you've ever wondered why rice paddies look permanently flooded, it turns out that constant flo...
Water-saving rice trick backfires in saltier coastal soils
If you garden or farm near a coastline, this shows that a popular water-saving technique can quie...
Peat soil additive slashes cadmium in rice, but raises arsenic
If you grow vegetables in soil near old industrial sites or busy roads, this shows how a simple o...
Microbe teams beat solo strains at boosting rice root health
If you've ever wondered why some plants thrive after adding a fungal inoculant to your garden soi...
Nutrient-based nanoparticles help crops survive heat better than others
If you grow tomatoes or peppers through a brutal summer, the same heat-stress biology this review...
Rice's sulfur-processing genes trade disease resistance for growth costs
The next bowl of rice you eat depends on a nutrient tug-of-war happening inside the plant, where ...
Breeders use DNA markers to make Kerala's favorite rice disease-proof
If you've ever grown a favorite vegetable variety only to watch it succumb to disease, this shows...
Rice husk waste becomes a plastic foam replacement
The rice hulls typically burned or dumped after harvest could soon replace the foam packaging tha...
How crops secretly cope with too much water
If your garden beds turned to mud puddles after last week's storm, the same survival tricks this ...
Metal nanoparticles help crop seeds survive drought and salty soil
If you've ever watched a struggling tomato plant wilt during a heat wave, this research points to...
Scientists find rice gene that fights a yield-killing fungus
Rice feeds more than half the world's population, and this gene variant could help breeders devel...
How plants sense and fight back against salty soil
If you've ever watched a plant struggle near a salted sidewalk or in coastal soil, this research ...
Wheat and rice may be bred to need less water and fertilizer
The corn and wheat fields you drive past could someday need far less irrigation and fertilizer, c...
Scientists find rice's secret salt-defense toolkit in its roots
Salty soil is spreading across farmland worldwide from irrigation and rising seas, and this resea...
Tiny helper proteins could make crops tougher in a changing climate
The tomatoes ripening on your vine and the rice on your plate both depend on these microscopic pr...
One plant hormone shapes crop yield, quality, and nutrition together
The size and shape of the tomatoes, rice, and grains on your plate are steered by a single hormon...
Manganese mineral duo cleans arsenic and cuts rice paddy gases
If you grow rice or care about the wetlands and paddies that feed much of the world, this points ...
AI drone fusion tracks rice growth stages with far fewer flights
If you've ever wondered how plant breeders keep tabs on thousands of individually-timed crop vari...
Salty irrigation water disrupts rice through a chain of soil changes
Coastal and dry-region gardeners watering with well water or reclaimed water can watch for the sa...
A rice gene pair controls drought survival through protein degradation
Rice feeds more than half the world's population, and understanding how it senses and survives dr...
Turning off one rice gene doubles its salt tolerance
As coastal farmland and irrigation water grow saltier worldwide, a single gene switch that nearly...
One plant protein switch could unlock smarter crop breeding
The wheat, rice, and vegetables on your plate all rely on this same growth-regulating protein, an...
How ancient farmers bred seed-dropping out of millet crops
The birdseed millet in your feeder and the drought-tough grains gaining attention as climate-resi...
Reviving salty farmland cuts one greenhouse gas, boosts another
If you've ever tried to grow anything in salty or alkaline soil, this shows how amending it with ...
Leftover rice scraps become a living soil booster for corn
If you compost or amend garden beds, this shows how farm byproducts most people toss out can be t...
Less potassium plus magnesium grows better rice, not worse
Acidic, magnesium-poor soils are common in hilly farm regions worldwide, and this study shows far...
A rice gene region lets roots branch more to find phosphorus
Rice feeds half the world, and this root-branching trick could help farmers grow it on the phosph...
A rice gene plus a nanoparticle team up against toxic cadmium
Cadmium quietly builds up in rice paddies from contaminated soil and water, and this research poi...
Engineered bacteria break down crop waste into usable sugar
The pile of rice straw or peanut shells burned or dumped after harvest could instead become a ren...
How you compost rice straw changes how much carbon soil locks away
The compost pile or straw mulch you add to garden beds isn't just feeding plants directly, it's f...
AI reads rice leaf photos to grade blast disease severity
If you grow rice or just care about global food security, this kind of tool could let farmers spo...
This rice protein builds the machinery that captures sunlight
Every green leaf in your garden depends on chloroplasts assembling correctly, and this study pinp...
Silicon soil booster locks up toxic metals, but fades with rain
If you garden on old industrial land, near roadways, or in acidic soil, this points to a soil-cra...
Gene editing trees without foreign DNA still hits roadblocks
The apples, poplars, and grapevines in orchards and windbreaks near you could one day be bred for...
Upgraded gene-editing tool unlocks more targets in crop DNA
The tomatoes and cabbage you grow or buy could see faster-bred traits like disease resistance or ...
Scientists find the gene behind pale, stunted rice plants
If you've ever wondered why some seedlings in a garden bed come up pale and weak while their neig...
Lab compound tricks rice into resisting rain-triggered sprouting
If you've ever grown grain or watched a wet harvest season ruin a neighbor's wheat or rice crop, ...
Functional Analysis of E93 Reveals Its Potential as a Target for Co...
Rice paddy fields you may see along roadsides or in agricultural regions face serious threats fro...
Rice proteins that shrink grains identified as breeding target
The rice on your dinner plate could get plumper and more abundant if breeders tweak this newly fo...
Calcium signals help crops close their pores to save water
The tomato plants wilting on your patio and the wheat in nearby fields both rely on the same calc...
Grain husks may naturally block hungry storage pests
The husk on the popcorn kernels you save for next season or the sorghum in your pantry isn't just...
Gene editing could help rice survive unexpected cold snaps
A single cold night at the wrong growth stage can wipe out a rice paddy, and this review maps out...
Scientists pinpoint the gene coloring mutant rice seeds purple
The antioxidant-rich pigments that make some grains look richly colored, from purple rice to red ...
AI tool spots drought-tough rice genes by combining data layers
The rice that ends up on your plate, and the crops filling fields worldwide, may get more drought...
How plants sense gravity could unlock denser, sturdier crops
The way a corn plant angles its leaves and roots in response to gravity determines whether a pack...
Old fertilizer keeps polluting the air years later
The compost and fertilizer you spread this spring don't stop affecting the atmosphere when the gr...
Rice leaves evolved super water-repellent surfaces long before farm...
The way rain beads up and rolls off a rice leaf instead of soaking in is a defense system that ke...
Rice gene shuttles its own disease-fighting chemical to work
Bacterial blight can wipe out rice paddies worldwide, so finding a gene that strengthens the plan...
Rice and Arabidopsis use the same signal to grow roots
Stronger, better-regulated root systems mean plants that pull water and nutrients more efficientl...
Modified peanut shell charcoal boosts selenium, blocks cadmium in rice
If you grow anything in soil near old industrial sites or just want to understand how soil amendm...
Flooding rice soil with organic matter traps mercury, blocks toxic form
If you grow vegetables in soil with any legacy contamination, this shows that boosting organic ma...
One insect species dominates rice fields, surprising scientists
If you've ever noticed a flooded rice field teeming with chirping insects, this study shows that ...
Why crossbred rice plants grow better than their parents
The rice on dinner tables across half the planet exists because breeders learned to exploit a gen...
Recycled sewage sludge boosts farm soil health and crop yields
If you compost or amend garden beds, this decade-long field trial shows that combining organic wa...
This rice gene acts like a drought survival switch
If you've ever watched a lawn or garden bed struggle through a dry summer, this gene is part of t...
Scientists edit several rice genes at once to build better plants
The rice on dinner tables worldwide depends on breeders stacking good traits together, and this f...
Drones can now count rice grain clusters more accurately
Farmers and agronomists tracking rice yield across large fields could soon get faster, more relia...
One rice gene quietly caps how big grains can grow
The rice on your plate tonight could be plumper and more abundant if breeders fine-tune this sing...
New gene tool stacks multiple traits into exact rice locations
The push for biofortified rice and other staple crops with better nutrition or climate resilience...
Aged biochar and earthworm tunnels team up to detoxify soil
If you garden in soil with any heavy metal history, this points to a low-tech combo, earthworms p...
Cadmium-trapping biochar leaks the toxic metal back out over time
If you grow vegetables in soil with any history of contamination, this shows that popular soil am...
Cereal crops adjust root hair growth to survive tough soil conditions
The wheat and corn fields feeding your community rely on root hairs you'll never see, and breedin...
Four staple crops carry most of Asia's plant disease burden
If you've ever grown tomatoes, potatoes, or rice-adjacent grains, this review shows the same dise...
Crop scraps turn into powerful water pollution filters
The banana peels and corn husks you toss in the compost bin could someday be processed into filte...
Charcoal plus bacteria team up to clean herbicide-tainted farm soil
Herbicide residue lingering in soil can stunt whatever you plant next, and this approach shows a ...
Factors influencing the adoption of sustainable rice farming practi...
Every bag of rice on the shelf is shaped by whether smallholder farmers thousands of miles away c...
Design, Fabrication, and Performance Evaluation of a Weeder for Upl...
Small-scale rice farmers hand-weeding paddies spend more on labor than on seeds — a locally built...
Design, Fabrication, and Performance Evaluation of a Weeder for Upl...
Small-scale rice farmers growing food on steep, rainfed hillsides spend more hours weeding than a...
Endogenous corazonin signaling modulates the post-mating switch in ...
Brown planthoppers can devastate an entire rice paddy in weeks — understanding what drives their ...
Diversification of plant specific organellar single-stranded DNA bi...
Every rice plant in a paddy and every vegetable in your kitchen garden runs its cellular metaboli...
Diverse novel RNA polymerase III promoters and dual-activity promot...
Every rice variety, wheat strain, and corn hybrid you've ever grown carries hidden genetic contro...
Organic carbon oxidation state shapes fermentative methanogenic mic...
The compost you dig into your vegetable bed — and whether it's woody and lignin-rich or leafy and...
Identification of a UDP-glucuronosyl/UDP-glucosyltransferase involv...
Rice paddies planted with faster-establishing seedlings need fewer herbicide applications in thos...
Editing several rice yield genes at once gives surprising, mixed results
Bigger grains sound like an easy win, but the rice in these trials showed that a plant which puts...
Mango fruit bacterium carries a toolkit of disease-fighting and gro...
Fungal and bacterial diseases wreck mango and rice harvests, and a friendly microbe that fends th...
Switching off one rice gene helps plants thrive on less phosphorus
Phosphorus fertilizer comes from finite mined rock and runs off into streams and ponds, so plants...
Gene found that keeps rice leaves upright for better yields
The upright, narrow leaves on a healthy stand of grain plants let sunlight reach lower leaves, th...
Extra fertilizer barely boosts rice yield over standard dose
If you grow rice or any heavy-feeding grain, this trial is a reminder that dumping on more nitrog...
Fancy fertilizer sensors barely beat a good fixed schedule
If you've ever wondered whether a soil sensor gadget is worth the money for your vegetable patch,...
Drip irrigation could let rice grow without flooding fields
If a water-saving method works for rice, one of the thirstiest crops ever grown in flooded paddie...
New method maps gene activity cell-by-cell in plant tissue
The soybean nodules that fix nitrogen in your garden's bean roots, the rice paddies feeding half ...
Rice and tobacco read the same hormone signal differently
The grass in your lawn and the tomatoes in your garden bed belong to two fundamentally different ...
Satellites map Bangladesh's rice fields through cloud cover and rain
If you've ever wondered how researchers track crops across a country the size of Iowa that's clou...
Tiny AI model spots grain defects in maize, wheat, and rice with hi...
Cheaper, faster defect detection in grain harvests means fewer moldy or damaged kernels slipping ...
New AI spots tiny rice grain clusters hidden in field photos
Anyone who has tried to count seed heads on a windy day in a vegetable patch knows how easy it is...
New herbicide dose nearly matches hand-weeded rice yields
Direct-seeding rice saves farmers water and labor compared to transplanting, but weeds like barny...
Three rice genes time chromosome splitting in pollen and egg formation
Rice sterility from failed pollen and egg formation limits seed set and yield, and knowing which ...
A rice paddy bacterium can break down an ozone-harming gas plants release
Waterlogged soil in rice fields, backyard ponds, or nearby wetlands hosts bacteria that quietly c...
New model shows which Indian districts respond most to nitrogen fertilizer
If you feed your vegetable beds or lawn by habit, this work shows that nitrogen drives most of th...
More weeding controls rice field weeds but not final harvest size
If you grow rice or any row crop, this suggests that chasing weeds on an aggressive schedule may ...
Scientist engineers rice traits by genetic design, not luck
The rice on dinner tables across Asia and beyond owes some of its yield and resilience to breedin...
New open map dataset predicts crop yields across South Asia
If you've ever wondered how researchers forecast whether a drought will devastate rice paddies in...
Chatbot app cuts pesticide safety checks from 22 minutes to 3
If you've ever wondered what actually happens to the person spraying the herbicide on the sugarca...
Pride, eco-image and fair prices push Balinese shoppers toward heri...
Bali's Subak irrigation system, a UNESCO-recognized network of water-sharing rice terraces, stays...
