Rice is a staple food for billions of people worldwide, but environmental and climate changes threaten the agricultural yields necessary to support the needs of an ever growing human population. An ...

Rising day and night temperatures are threatening rice, wheat, and maize production by disrupting plant growth, grain filling, and grain quality, putting global food security at risk. Precision ...

Severe flooding has slashed global rice yields in recent decades, threatening food security for billions of people who depend on the grain. The losses amounted to approximately 4.3%, or 18 million ...

Low yields and the absence of a reliable market have prevented nutritionally enhanced rice varieties from gaining popularity among farmers. In Bangladesh, most farmers still prioritise higher yields ...

Researchers from the University of Oxford, Nanjing Agricultural University, and Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (Chinese Academy of Sciences) have finally identified the master ...

Bangladesh is now the world’s third-largest rice producer, with output rising from 10.9 million metric tons in 1971 to 42.0 million metric tons in 2022. Despite the abundance of the staple crop, ...

NEW DELHI: The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) - the country's premier agriculture research organisation - has developed the world's first genome-edited improved varieties of rice to ...

Ratoon rice systems, wherein a second crop is generated from the residual stubble of the main harvest, represent an innovative and resource‐efficient model of rice cultivation. This approach offers ...

Rice, a staple for billions, is one of the most resource-hungry crops on the planet—but scientists may have found a way to change that. By applying nanoscale selenium directly to rice plants, ...

Researchers from the University of Oxford, Nanjing Agricultural University, and Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (Chinese Academy of Sciences) have finally identified the master ...