The reason is that rice seedlings were traditionally grown in paddies and then transplanted to the fields by hand. As they worked in the fields, farmers would recognize and pull weeds growing there.

Rice art. Stunning crop art has sprung up across rice fields in Japan. But this is no alien creation - the designs have been cleverly planted. Farmers creating the huge displays use no ink or dye.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A study in the April 3 issue of Nature Genetics describes an ancestry.com-type adventure that reveals the deep history of a family, including some disreputable relatives. But the family, in this case, ...

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

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 ...