Ghana’s Traditional Rice Landraces Outshine Improved Varieties in Key Minerals, Study Finds
A controlled field study in Ghana shows that traditional rice landraces Ex-Baika and Ex-Viono accumulate significantly more iron, zinc, calcium, ...
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Crushing Rice Seeds Under Pressure Leaves Genetic Scars That Last Nine Generations
A rice lineage derived from seeds treated with 100 megapascals of hydrostatic pressure still shows reduced height, tiller number, and ...
Dense Planting Supercharges Slow-Release Fertilizer for Greener, Higher-Yielding Rice
A three-year Chinese field trial shows that pairing controlled-release blended fertilizer with dense planting raises rice yields by up to ...
Soil Fungus Slashes Heavy Metal Buildup in Rice by Rewiring Roots and Microbes
A field study shows that inoculating rice with a Penicillium fungus significantly reduces chromium, cadmium, lead, and antimony accumulation by ...
Two New Genes That Shorten Rice Stems Could Help Breed Lodging-Proof Crops
A genome-wide association study of 429 rice accessions combined with CRISPR/Cas9 validation has identified two new genes, INL1 and INL2, ...
Green Manure Plus Rice Straw Cuts Fertilizer Use and Air Pollution in Rice Fields
A two-year field experiment in southern China shows that co-incorporating leguminous green manure and rice straw with 40 percent less ...
Tiny Particles, Big Harvests: How Nanoparticles Could Shield Cereal Crops From Drought
A new review in Discover Plants maps how metal oxide, silicon, carbon-based, and polymer nanoparticles modulate water relations, photosynthesis, and ...
Why Starch Never Predicts Texture Alone: The Matrix Rules That Decide How Food Feels
A new review argues that starch structure determines food texture only in combination with the food matrix, water availability, processing ...
AI Reads Crop Photosynthesis Pixel by Pixel in Deep Learning Leap for Farming
A multi-task deep learning framework can estimate more than a dozen crop photosynthetic traits simultaneously from hyperspectral images with record ...
Fungal Molecule on Rice Leaves Reveals New Route to Disease-Resistant Crops
A fungal metabolite from leaf-dwelling Aspergillus protects rice and other crops from fungal pathogens, pointing toward microbiome-shaping plant genes as ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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