So far researchers have tested the transparent effect on rice, tobacco, tomato, cucumber, moss, and other flowering plants. But this sort of botanical x-ray can be applied to anything that sprouts.

Researchers say they can improve rice harvests and grain quality by essentially turning off a temperature-sensitive gene ...

They wound up with 25 transgenic plants, nine of which were ... Compared to regular rice, the transgenic seeds were nearly transparent, as seen below. Then the team figured out how to purify ...

Researchers were able to demonstrate how a specific bacterium inside the seeds of rice plants effectively and in an eco-friendly way inhibits destructive plant pathogens. Rice is the staple food ...

By transferring a barley gene into a rice plant, scientists have created a new variety of rice that produces less methane while still making highly starchy, productive seeds. The development of ...

So when farmers want to use high-performing hybrid plant varieties, they need to purchase new seed each season. Rice, the staple crop for half the world's population, is relatively costly to breed ...

Now, researchers reporting in ACS Nano detail a possible solution that doesn't require genetic modification to make rice plants thrive in these conditions. In lab experiments, they determined that ...

Rice is arguably the world's most important staple crop. About half of the global population depends on it for sustenance. But, like other staples such as wheat and corn, rice is cultivated annually.

Now, scientists have identified chemical compounds released by rice roots that determine how much methane the plants emit. On February 3 in the Cell Press journal Molecular Plant, they report that ...

disease resistant rice strains available to low-income farmers worldwide. The work was published Dec. 27 in Nature Communications. First-generation hybrids of crop plants often show higher performance ...