A research group led by Nagoya University in Japan has discovered a new tissue in plants that is essential for seed formation ...

A word of caution to rice growers: the herbicide fluridone has become a valuable tool in fighting Palmer pigweed, but it can ...

A recently published article in the journal Weed Science demonstrates just how devasting Palmer amaranth (Amaranthus palmeri) ...

Rice fields across India host a variety of wild, edible plants that Indigenous communities value for their nutritional and medicinal properties. But these “weeds” are rapidly disappearing.

If farmers install solar panels over their rice fields, their overall revenue, including income from selling solar-generated ...

Scientists in Japan have conducted a field experiment in rice plantations hosting agrivoltaics systems and have found that ...

From the fields, they scooped up soil to analyse ... The scientists also assessed how well plants grew, and also analysed rice grains for their fibre, amylose, and protein content, which accounts ...

This stage is essential for seed regeneration, but water fluctuations can affect this sensitive stage of life for the plant and even stop it from creating rice that year. Other threats Manoomin faces ...

These real plants presented their own logistical issues ... production had to grow out rice fields of varying heights. So as the series shot in Toronto in March of 2023, a crew flew out to ...

Though recent discoveries have revealed how rice plants mitigate such threats by initiating immune responses against insect-borne viruses, the molecular mechanism by which plant hosts perceive ...