Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the South American country of Suriname, the Maroon community is growing incredible, rare strains of rice made to flourish in ...
A rice field in Bengal, India. Rice is a staple crop for billions of people, but it has proved difficult to bring high-yield hybrid rice strainers to farmers. UC Davis scientists have developed a ...
Direct seeded rice shows encouraging results and may cover 60% of India’s rice area. Experts say DSR reduces water use, ...
Genetic alterations during ageing of rice seeds were analyzed using SSR markers. In the first experiment, seeds of 10 accessions of rice were subjected to artificial ageing in chambers conditioned to ...
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Rice grown for seed rice was the focus of a yearlong investigation by the Arkansas Rice Processing Program using X-ray imaging to determine the impact of higher drying ...
THE Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) is pushing DNA-profiling technology to ensure farmers and seed growers of receiving genetically pure and true-to-type inbred rice seeds and boost ...
An international team has succeeded in propagating a commercial hybrid rice strain as a clone through seeds with 95 percent efficiency. This could lower the cost of hybrid rice seed, making ...