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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For all their variation, these seeds share a common trait: They’re native to the Midwest. These species genetically adapted over thousands of years and sustain the region’s ecosystems. That ...

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 ...

New research suggests that the historical emergence of cultivated rice from wild rice plants resulted from a combination of three gene mutations that make the seeds (i.e., the grains of rice) fall ...

Yang Xiugang stands with the local team in a rice paddy. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] Yang Xiugang, a rice seed-production specialist from Guizhou province, has spent most of the past decade ...

Farmers harvest rice at the Lower Kuja Irrigation scheme. [Caleb Kingwara, Standard] More than 100 farmers at Lower Kuja irrigation scheme in Nyatike sub-county, Migori county have received 10,000 ...