Farmers must incessantly weed rice paddies to maintain water flow through the terraces. Rice, an annual grass belonging to the same family as barley, oats, rye, and wheat, grows today in a range ...

Rice is a staple food for billions of people around the planet, but a new study suggests climate change may increase arsenic ...

Rice, the world’s most consumed grain, will become increasingly toxic as the atmosphere heats and as carbon dioxide emissions ...

Despite its critical importance, rice has seen very little venture investment to drive yields and cut emissions, says Azolla ...

Working with partners in China, Malaysia and Thailand, biologists in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis determined that weedy rice is crossbreeding with wild rice in Southeast Asia.

A recently published article in the journal Weed Science demonstrates just how devastating Palmer amaranth (Amaranthus palmeri) can be for furrow-irrigated rice production, even in small amounts.

“With this method, there is a wider space between plants and this makes weedy rice (padi angin) easily visible and preven­ted from growing in tandem with the padi plant,’’ he said when contacte ...

If the weed reaches a rice field, it could twine around the rice plants, causing them to fall and resulting in a drop in the harvest. Alligatorweed was first confirmed in Japan in 1989 ...