Big things are happening at China’s Tiangong Space Station. The state-owned newspaper China Daily reports that Chinese astronauts onboard the craft have successfully hatched rice seedlings in space.

Bakanae disease symptoms can vary according to a number of circumstances, including age, cultivar resistance, and stress levels. Since younger plants are more vulnerable to infection and the effects ...

Despite the fact that there have been prior rice experiments in space, the one being carried out on Tiangong is the first of its kind in producing the entire life cycle of the plant, which starts with ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. To fight food insecurity and climate change, Senegal is increasingly employing a relatively new strategy for growing rice, known as the “system of ...

Hybrid rice—bred from two different parents—greatly contributes to food security. However, the process of hybrid seed production is labor intensive, and fully mechanized hybrid rice breeding is ...

According to Indonesian legend, rice was bestowed upon the island of Java by the goddess Dewi Sri. Pitying its inhabitants the blandness of their existing staple, cassava, she taught them how to ...

Farming communities across Nepal came out by their hundreds of thousands to transplant rice seedings on Tuesday, which is officially National Paddy Plantation Day. Most wore masks as the men waded ...