WashU scientists found that 57% of 201 samples of weedy rice collected from fields in nine counties or parishes of Missouri, Arkansas and Louisiana in 2022 were resistant to the imidazolinone (IMI ...

"A major weedy rice infestation can reduce crop harvests in a given field by over 80 per cent," he said. According to the World Economic Forum , Asian rice producers account for more than 80 per ...

Weedy rice competes with cultivated rice for resources throughout the growing season, robbing the crop of nutrients and water. Here, researchers identify and collect weedy rice samples from a ...

Farmers must incessantly weed rice paddies to maintain water flow through the terraces. Rice, an annual grass belonging to the same family as barley, oats, rye, and wheat, grows today in a range ...

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With that higher yield, the farm can use fewer resources like water; this is especially important when it comes to growing rice, as fields are flooded to drown out weeds. [Photo: Lundberg Family ...

If the weed reaches a rice field, it could twine around the rice plants, causing them to fall and resulting in a drop in the harvest. Alligatorweed was first confirmed in Japan in 1989 ...

Working with partners in China, Malaysia and Thailand, biologists in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis determined that weedy rice is crossbreeding with wild rice in Southeast Asia.