The international Healthy Crops consortium has developed an innovative strategy to combat the disease bacterial blight (for short: BB) in rice using genome editing technology. If approved for use by ...

The production of rice, a staple food for millions across the globe, is vital for ensuring food security, particularly in ...

With the rapid advancement of technology, modern, time-saving equipment has been introduced to meet the ever-growing demand ...

Scientists have demonstrated that Wrinkle-lipped free-tailed bats not only travels great distances, but also hunt at impressive altitudes of up to 1,600 meters above ground -- the altitude at which ...

Paddy farmers for generations, practised traditional methods of sowing, ploughing, harvesting and preserving indigenous paddy seeds and cultivated on fields free from chemical fertiliser and harmful ...

Farmers in the Northeast have shown a willingness to stop crop burning and switch to a decomposition method instead, saying they are ready to be part of the transition towards sustainable agriculture ...

Those are the first signs that spring is just around the corner… How exciting! When it comes to planting seeds, timing is crucial. Sowing seeds in frozen ground is unlikely to result in ...

Rice University researchers have revealed novel sequence-structure-property relationships for customizing engineered living materials (ELMs), enabling more precise control over their structure and how ...

The scheme used was factorial, with factor A consisting of different herbicide application times, namely June, July, and August, and corresponding to 100, 78, and 26 days and 42, 26, and 10 days ...

With an increasing frequency and intensity of flooding events and an eye to capitalize on a common rice production technique ... changes in the United States have allowed earlier soybean planting ...