Previous research had suggested that paddy-field soil might contain nitrogen-fixing microbes that can provide rice plants with additional nutrients to support their growth, Shida says.

Develop and spread high performance rice plant adaptable for rice farming in non-irrigated area Various styles of rice farming are operated in Myanmar, with non-irrigated rice farming depending on ...

Through molecular marker-assisted selection for the Pita-2 gene, associate researcher Chien Chen-yu (簡禎佑) successfully bred ...

Ventria Bioscience, a California-based company, is seeking U.S. Department of Agriculture approval to plant more than 3,000 acres of the genetically altered rice in fields near Junction City.

Now, researchers reporting in ACS Nano detail a possible solution that doesn’t require genetic modification to make rice plants thrive in these conditions. In lab experiments, they determined that ...