THE Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) urged farmers in major rice-producing regions to ramp up field surveillance as wet‑season weather usually fuels pest and disease outbreaks. In a ...

Weeds are mostly removed from the field manually in traditional method of rice cultivation. But high weed infestation is a major problem in direct-seeded rice (DSR) and causes grain yield losses ...

This copycat is a weed that’s extremely difficult to find, has lots of evolutionary protections to ensure its ongoing survival, and has a significant negative effect on rice crops around the world.

Early results of a novel weed management solution using two herbicides show promise. The first known use of stacked gene edited herbicide tolerant traits in an elite variety of rice to improve ...

Despite rice being the staple food for more than half of the world's population, its cultivation remains highly resource-intensive, requiring large amounts of water and chemical fertilizers. Even as ...

While it's an important part of our diets, new research shows that rice plants can be used in a different way, too: to clean runoff from farms before it gets into rivers, lakes, and streams.

Under Cuba’s blazing sun, Vietnamese rice expert Tran Thi Tham stood amid a sea of golden fields, eyeing the hefty rice ...

We tend to assume that domestication is a one-way street and that, once domesticated, crop plants stay domesticated. A new study of rice shows, however, that different methods of farming change ...

Silicon 'plant stones' for strong rice: Fertilizing & recycling Si in Vietnamese fields Date: October 1, 2015 Source: Pensoft Publishers Summary: Recent research showed that silicon (Si) is an ...