The team is now seeking to demonstrate the importance of this new rice to the Chinese government in hopes that it can be provided nationwide

New method of regulating plant hormones allows researchers to increase quality and yields of rice crops grown in saline soil.

Rice cultivation is responsible for around 12% of global methane emissions, and these emissions are expected to increase with global warming and as the human population continues to grow.

Using traditional crossbreeding, researchers have created a new strain of rice that produces much less methane, a potent greenhouse gas, when it is grown in flooded fields