rice
Billions of people rely on rice for sustenance. Genetic engineering makes it more nutritious
Rice is a key source of carbohydrate and B vitamins. However, rice consumption as a major food is not sufficient ...
How GMO, gene-edited crops can keep cancer-causing heavy metals out of staple foods
One of the most pressing issues in public health is the presence of toxic elements in food, which potentially risk ...
Humans may have driven weeds to evolve to resemble crop plants—And they even became edible
Nikolai Vavilov’s story has stuck with Longjiang Fan ever since he learned about the Soviet plant biologist during his undergraduate ...
New study shows CRISPR can be applied to produce biofortified rice
A team of California plant scientists has taken a CRISPR-Cas9 approach to develop more nutritious varieties of rice. Their research, ...
Gene-edited, salt-tolerant rice grown at sea could help feed 3.5 billion people sustainably
Growing rice in the ocean sounds a little whacky, but ocean agriculture is an emerging form of food production that ...
CRISPR-edited crops reveal gene responsible for salt tolerance in rice
Scientists from China National Rice Research Institute reported that FLN2, a gene that encodes fructokinase-like protein2, influences sugar metabolism as ...
CRISPR immunizes rice against multiple diseases, preserving crop yields and biodiversity
Scientists from China National Rice Research Institute used CRISPR-Cas9 to edit Semi-Dwarf1 (SD1) in elite Chinese rice varieties, which has ...
CRISPR immunizes rice, staple crop consumed by billions, against devastating bacterial infection
Genome editing has made one of the world’s most important crops resistant to a devastating bacterial infection. ... The researchers ...
How early farmers helped barnyard grass become one of the ‘world’s worst’ weeds
Vavilovian mimicry allowed barnyard grass to become the scourge of rice cultivation ...
Controlling this gene boosts plant tolerance to water, salt stress
Plant Science reports that OsNCED5 gene regulated tolerance to water and salt stress, as well as leaf aging in rice ...
Just-discovered rice gene could fuel development of new GMO herbicide-resistant crops
Rice experts from the National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO) in Japan and partners found a rice gene that ...
‘RoboDUCK’: Weed-killing robot could cut chemical use in rice farming
An engineer working for Japanese carmaker Nissan has built a robot to help farmers reduce the use of herbicides and ...
Newly identified rice gene could help develop drought-tolerant biotech crop varieties
Drought is one of the abiotic factors that affect the yield of crops. Studies have shown that basic leucine zipper ...
How biotech could help save rice, staple crop consumed by half the world daily, from climate change
For more than half the world’s population, rice is on the menu every single day. As a crop that can ...
From high-yielding rice to disease-resistant oranges, CRISPR-edited crops could save our favorite foods
Some of the foods we know and love could be gone from the planet faster than you might think - chocolate ...
Photosynthesis-efficient rice could help meet surging food demand in developing countries
Work is well underway to engineer a rice plant in a way that global production of the grain gets a dramatic ...
Researchers hunt for heat-tolerant rice, wheat varieties as global temperatures rise
A group of Arkansas State University educators and students are studying effects of heat on rice crops in a three-university ...
High-yield, protein-enriched rice could help combat nutrient deficiency in developing world
More than 750 million people don't get enough nutrients from their food. More than two-thirds of those people live in ...
Rice plants engineered to take up more CO2 could boost crop yields as much as 27%
A new bioengineering approach for boosting photosynthesis in rice plants could increase grain yield by up to 27%, according to ...
Adoption of GMO cowpea, rice could offer substantial boost to Ghana’s farmers and consumers, study says
Cowpea is the most widely produced grain legume in Ghana and a key food security crop. In northern Ghana, where ...
GMO crops may help keep arsenic out of India’s food supply
An Indian scientist in the UK is working on a way to grow crops in arsenic contaminated soil, a study ...
New GMO rice variety could cut arsenic exposure in food
Arsenic accumulation in rice grains is one of the serious agricultural issues in India. To address this, researchers at Lucknow-based ...
Gene silencing could help boost rice yields in developing world
Scientists can examine the genetic basis for some of the changes that took place during rice domestication by comparing genes in cultivated rice plants with ...
Climate change and rice: How some of the world’s poorest nations may suffer
Much of the world relies on rice. What happens when climate change threatens rice nutrition? ...
New ‘scuba rice’ could protect 49 million acres of rice fields from flooding
According to some estimates, half the world depends on rice as its staple food. But as the climate changes, rice cultivation ...
Crops engineered to consume less nitrogen fertilizer could protect vulnerable ecosystems
Rice, wheat and other grains that have been bred to produce larger harvests using less land have been critical to ...
Ratooning: Nuclear technology helps Chinese rice farmers double their yields—and their incomes
Just as grass lawns regrow after they are mowed, rice fields can regrow after they are harvested. This second harvest ...
