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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A distorter-restorer system drives quantitative reproductive isolat...
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Conserved and divergent gene regulatory networks for crop drought r...
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The SDR1-OsDSK2a-EUI1 module orchestrates plant height and multi-st...
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CRISPR-Mediated Enhancement of Photosynthetic Efficiency in Oryza sativa
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CRISPR Base Editing Creates Herbicide-Tolerant Rice Without Transge...
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Strigolactone Signaling Controls Tillering Response to Phosphorus i...
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Rice2035: A decadal vision for rice research and breeding.
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Harnessing diverse tRNAs and AI-guided mining for compact and effic...
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Cytoplasmic and mitochondrial citrate synthases mediate cadmium det...
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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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Plant-microbiome interactions are associated with enhanced salinity...
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Long-Term Biochar Application Enhances Carbon-Phosphorus Costabiliz...
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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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OsMYB306-OsRAV11 Regulates Resistance of Rice to Striped Stem Borer...
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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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Conserved and Divergent: Salicylic Acid Biosynthesis and Signaling ...
Understanding how plants naturally defend themselves against disease could help scientists breed ...
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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Recent advances in miRNAs mediated agronomical advantageous traits ...
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Decoding heterosis in rice: from classical theories to modern omics...
Understanding hybrid vigor in rice directly drives the development of higher-yielding varieties t...
Challenges in Bringing Pangenome Research Into Breeding: A Case Stu...
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Functional Conservation and Diversity of Phytochrome B and its Pote...
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MicroRNA networks in rice seeds: unveiling key regulators of develo...
Rice feeds more than half of humanity, and understanding the molecular dials that control how ric...
Characterization of Grain Quality and Starch Properties of Rice und...
As climate change brings more frequent droughts and saltier soils to farming regions worldwide, t...
Phosphorus-arsenic interaction mitigates toxicity and accumulation ...
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Assessing climate change effects on streamflow and paddy production...
Rice prices at your grocery store are quietly tied to monsoon reliability in South Asia — and thi...
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...
Enhancing CRISPR-Cas12a base editing in plants with LbCas12a varian...
Better gene-editing tools bring us closer to crops that can survive drought, resist pests, or tol...
Rice straw biochar differently influences the availability and upta...
Wheat grown in heavy-metal-contaminated soil can carry cadmium and lead into the bread on your ta...
Crop biofortification for global food security: advances in genetic...
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HDAC-mediated non-histone deacetylation as a central regulatory net...
Tomatoes, wheat bread, and rice on your plate could become more reliably abundant as breeders use...
Allelic variation in UVR8 modulates thermotolerance-yield tradeoffs...
Rice paddies that feed half the world are quietly losing their battle with climbing temperatures ...
Biochar and melatonin alleviate microplastic-cadmium (MP-Cd) stress...
Rice grown in soils laced with microplastics and industrial cadmium can carry both into your body...
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...
Triacontanol-biochar synergy regulates redox homeostasis and stress...
Rare earth metals from discarded electronics and industrial waste are quietly building up in farm...
ORANGE: a tale of two pigments and two organelles.
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Genome-wide identification of the ARR-B gene family and functional ...
Rice feeds more than half the world's population, and the salty, degraded farmland spreading acro...
Cover Cropping-Mediated Regulation of Phyllosphere Microbial Health...
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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...
Microbial community insights into antimicrobial rice-straw lignin f...
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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...
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 ...
A synthetic guide RNA scaffold enhanced CRISPR/Cas9 editing efficie...
Tomatoes engineered to resist drought, rice bred to fight blight without pesticides, and vegetabl...
Combined organic amendments reduce Cd accumulation in double-croppi...
Soil amendments you might already use in your garden — compost, straw mulch, and biochar — work p...
Precision-engineered starch: Integrating metabolic engineering and ...
Staple crops like potatoes, corn, and rice are being quietly rewritten at the molecular level so ...
Spatiotemporal evolution of climatic resources and their impacts on...
Rice paddies in eastern China are quietly reorganizing themselves around a climate that no longer...
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 ...
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, ...
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...
Factors influencing methane emissions in rice paddies using alterna...
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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 ...
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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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...
Addressing global hotspots of drought-related crop production losses.
Drought hotspots in the central US, eastern Brazil, and South Asia are already quietly shrinking ...
Improving low-phosphate tolerance via tissue-specific CRISPR/Cas9 k...
Rice paddies worldwide are quietly starved of phosphorus — and the fertilizer fix is running out ...
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...
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 ...
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...
Nanobiochar Mitigates Photosynthetic Impairment in Rice Caused by A...
Rice paddies downstream from farms and hospitals absorb antibiotic runoff through their roots — a...
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...
A data-light composite climate resilience index reveals superior dr...
If you grow sorghum, finger millet, or pearl millet in a dry-summer garden, you're already workin...
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 ...
Rice feeds over half the world's population, and developing varieties that need less fertilizer w...
The transcription factor OsbHLH55 regulates leaf inclination throug...
The rice in your grocery store could become more abundant and cheaper as breeders use discoveries...
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...
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...
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 ...
Genotype-specific optimization of in vitro regeneration and Agrobac...
Rice on your dinner plate — especially fragrant varieties like jasmine-style Indian rices — could...
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...
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...
Spatiotemporal regulation of arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis at ce...
Every tomato, pepper, and squash in your garden is quietly negotiating with soil fungi right now ...
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...
Diversity, antibacterial and phytotoxic activities of culturable gu...
Weeds like barnyardgrass are becoming resistant to common herbicides, and these dragonfly gut fun...
Whole-genome characterization of halotolerant Enterobacter roggenka...
Rice paddies treated with this naturally occurring soil microbe pushed germination rates from 42%...
AMF-mediated root redistribution decreases Cd uptake in rice while ...
Soil contaminated with cadmium — from old mining sites, industrial runoff, or certain fertilizers...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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: ...
Every bag of lime or compost you work into waterlogged garden beds or rice paddies sets off a cha...
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...
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...
Abscisic acid positively regulates rice spikelet closure.
Rice farmers and breeders lose significant yield when flower timing goes wrong during hybrid seed...
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...
Sorghum is the drought-tough grain quietly holding food security together across the driest farmi...
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...
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...
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...
Rice phosphate transporter reduces the low phosphate response throu...
Rice paddies worldwide get drenched in phosphate fertilizer partly because the plant panics and s...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Identification of a UDP-glucuronosyl/UDP-glucosyltransferase involv...
Rice paddies planted with faster-establishing seedlings need fewer herbicide applications in thos...
Endogenous corazonin signaling modulates the post-mating switch in ...
Brown planthoppers can devastate an entire rice paddy in weeks — understanding what drives their ...
