Previous research had suggested that paddy-field soil might contain nitrogen-fixing microbes that can provide rice plants with additional nutrients to support their growth, Shida says.

The Japanese government plans to increase the country's rice exports by nearly eight-fold to 350,000 tons, worth 92.2 billion yen ($6 ...

A new study finds that microplastic pollution reduces plant photosynthesis, threatening global food security and worsening ...

Houseplants need to be fed in spring to get the nutrients they need to flower, and you can give peace lilies or orchids a ...

While most plants continue to synthesize CoQ10, grasses, including all cereal crops such as rice, wheat and corn, as well as daisies and cucurbit plants mainly produce CoQ9. By analyzing the ...

When you rinse your rice before cooking it, do you discard the cloudy water and move on? If so, you are dumping an easy and ...

Microplastics are floating in the air around us, surging through rivers and streams and burrowing deep into soils. And now, a ...

After the targeted editing, the rice plants in this study primarily synthesized CoQ 10, with up to 5 μg/g produced per rice grain. This shows that gene editing has become an efficient and safe ...

Sulfate from acid rain, sewage treatment plants, mines and bacteria is creating a harmful byproduct affecting wild rice in Minnesota. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency and University of Minnesota ...

Matt McCary, assistant professor of biosciences at Rice University, has been awarded a Faculty Early Career Development ...