The consumption of rice accounts for nearly half the total intake of cadmium, a toxic heavy metal, among humans. Now, scientists have found that the duplication of a cadmium transporter gene in the ...
Rice flowers are dipped in a solution to introduce gene edits for tungro resistance. (Photos from the Philippine Rice Research Institute) MANILA, Philippines — The government is harnessing science and ...
The team, led by Chengbo Shen, Zhe Ji, and Shan Li, identified a rice gene that helps the rice plant keep its balance when nitrogen is scarce ...
UC Davis and Chinese scientists have found a way to create disease-resistant rice with high yields. (Zhudifeng/Getty Images photo) Researchers from the University of California, Davis, and an ...
A team of scientists from the University of Oxford, Nanjing Agricultural University, and the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology has identified a single rice gene that, in experiments and ...
Cibus, Inc., an agricultural technology company, issued a correction regarding previously reported gene editing conversion rates for rice, stating that the rates of 10-25% were not reconfirmed due to ...
Rice is a staple food for billions of people worldwide, but environmental and climate changes threaten the agricultural yields necessary to support the needs of an ever growing human population. An ...
Rice is a staple food for nearly half the world’s population. However, it accumulates more cadmium from the soil than other cereals like barley and wheat. Reports estimate that 40–65% of our total ...