Twelve years ago, rice breeders with Lundberg Family Farms crossed two rice plant “parents” in hopes of cultivating a better black pearl rice plant. After growing generations and generations of ...

Supported by the Panicle Analyzer software, EOPT accurately measures key traits like grain number, grain length, grain width, and panicle length, eliminating the need for traditional manual threshing ...

Gene discovery opens new path for disease-resistant rice breeding by Liu Jia, Chinese Academy of Sciences edited by Gaby Clark, reviewed by Robert Egan Editors' notes The GIST ...

The Indian Institute of Rice Research, an Indian Council of Agricultural Research agency, has commenced work on a Speed ...

Rice cultivation is responsible for around 12% of global methane emissions, and these emissions are expected to increase with global warming and as the human population continues to grow. An ...

(a) Pictures of PF- and field-cultivated rice seeds; (b) growth cycle of PF- and field-cultivated rice seeds; (c) picture of rice speed breeding. A recent study has brought to light some exciting ...

Rice is a staple food in Liberia and a cornerstone of rural livelihoods, yet domestic production meets only about one-third of national demand.

For thousands of years, humans have sought to improve their plants to ensure they have safe and nutritious sources of food. It started out with the simple act of selecting the strongest, most ...

Researchers observe rice phenotypes in the field to obtain key data for breeding disease-resistant varieties. Credit: Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences Bacterial blight (BB) is a ...