The study found that wild rice has a higher abundance and diversity of disease-resistant genes than cultivated rice. Han's ...

Rice feeds more than half of the world’s population. Climate change is loading the beloved grain with arsenic, creating a ...

A study has constructed an unprecedented pangenome map of wild and cultivated rice, and decoded the genetic architecture and ...

Late on a warm February afternoon Glenn Gregorio, a plant geneticist at the International Rice Research Institute, shows me the rice that started the green revolution in Asia. We’re in Los ...

Though recent discoveries have revealed how rice plants mitigate such threats by initiating immune responses against insect-borne viruses, the molecular mechanism by which plant hosts perceive ...