Global rice production nearly doubled between the 1960s and the 2010s, despite the negative impacts of climate change, ...

As bizarre as it sounds, Prof. Norman Uphoff, government and international agriculture, argues that cutting the water supply in half and reducing the plant population by a factor of 10 actually ...

Scientists at the University of Nottingham are helping to develop new varieties of rice that may be able to withstand drought. Rice is a primary food staple for billions of people, with over half the ...

Rice feeds over half of the world’s population and sustains 144 million people—80 percent of them smallholder farmers. With a projected 30 percent surge in demand by 2050, the rice industry will only ...

A gene called COLD6 contributes to cold tolerance in rice, potentially offering a pathway to use molecular design to breed a rice variety with higher resistance to cold stress. A gene called COLD6 ...