Rice serves as the foundation of countless meals across the globe, providing more than just filling carbohydrates. This ...

Rice feeds more than half of the world’s population. Climate change is loading the beloved grain with arsenic, creating a ...

The team didn’t look at just any rice, but some of the grain varieties most produced and consumed worldwide. After nearly a decade of observing and analyzing the growth of the plants ...

Farmers usually plant rice seed in a seedbed, then transplant young plants into the paddies, which have about six inches of water at this stage. As the plants mature, cultivators allow the water ...

A study has constructed an unprecedented pangenome map of wild and cultivated rice, and decoded the genetic architecture and ...

Field trials confirmed the practical impact: rice plants with extra OsMED23 or OsJMJ703 delivered significantly higher yields compared to conventional varieties. This highlights the trio's ...

The construction of a ‘pangenome’ sequence collection that incorporates the genomes of nearly 150 wild and cultivated rice varieties captures all the genetic diversity found in this plant.