For about half the global population, rice is the staple food. Yet every year, a fungal disease—rice blast—destroys harvests ...

Fred Zaunbrecher has been a rice farmer for 40 years. He says he’s not foreign to Louisiana's warm and moist climate, which is conducive to the growth of bacteria or fungus. "We had dry weather for ...

The government has approved the commercial propagation of a rice variety with higher iron and zinc content in its bid to ...

Researchers from the University of California, Davis, and an international team of scientists used the genome-editing tool CRISPR-Cas to create disease resistant rice plants, according to a new study ...

Breakthrough discovery of fungal long non-coding RNA attack mechanism could enable greener, broad-spectrum disease-resistant ...

This study is led by Associate Professor Yufei Liu (College of Biosystems Engineering and Food Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China). The authors developed a fast and non-destructive early ...

Many Punjab farmers had reported that, against the normal paddy yield of around 30 to 32 quintals per acre, severely affected fields produced barely one or two quintals in some cases due to the ...

Rice is one of the most important crops in sub-Saharan Africa. However, it is particularly at risk from disease. A new study has found that CRISPR technology can be used to edit genes in some strains ...