Joha rice starch emerges as a powerful tablet excipient rivaling corn starch
A humble, fragrant rice variety from Assam, India, may be on the verge of a second career in the pharmaceutical ...
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Seaweed-Grown Zinc Nanoparticles Shield Rice Seedlings From Salt Stress
Researchers in India found that zinc oxide nanoparticles synthesized with seaweed extract outperformed commercial particles at lower doses, protecting salt-stressed ...
Rice Gene FLBOA9 Revealed as Master Switch Controlling Leaf Angle for Higher Yields
Researchers identified and validated FLBOA9 as a negative regulator of functional leaf angle in rice, opening a path to compact ...
A Single Rice Gene Decides Whether Cadmium Becomes a Silent Killer or a Manageable Stress
A single transporter gene, OsHMA3, determines whether rice locks cadmium safely in root vacuoles or lets it flood shoots, where ...
Two-Layer Gene Editing Delivers Elite Herbicide-Tolerant Crops
Researchers combined structure-guided protein design with cis-regulatory editing at the native HPPD locus to create elite herbicide-tolerance alleles in rice ...
Contaminated Water Turns Rice Parboiling Into an Arsenic Delivery System, Bengal Delta Study Finds
A complete tracking of arsenic through Bengal Delta rice processing shows that contaminated groundwater used in parboiling and cooking can ...
PrimeStack: New Gene-Stacking Tool Writes Large DNA Cargos Into Rice Genomes at Precise Sites
Scientists have developed PrimeStack, a break-free genome-editing platform that combines prime editing with the Bxb1 integrase to insert large multigene ...
Silicon Gives Rice a Hidden Edge Against the Fall Armyworm, Study Finds
A new study shows that silicon accumulation in rice confers resistance to the fall armyworm by enabling a balanced transcriptional ...
Salt in the Water, Hunger in the Fields: Rice Hits a Yield Cliff at Just 1.4 Parts Per Thousand
A controlled greenhouse study of Vietnamese rice finds that irrigation water salinity of only about 1.4 parts per thousand triggers ...
Waste-Derived Biochar Supercharges Rice Defenses Against Toxic Chromium
A potassium ferrate-modified biochar made from sugarcane waste cut chromium in rice grains by 95.2 percent in a 120-day pot ...
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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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