The same phenomenon that forms the Northern Lights could change modern agriculture as we know it by replacing chemical ...

Their study, "Atmospheric cold plasma alters plant traits and negatively affects the growth and development of fall armyworm in rice," was published in Scientific Reports in January. Dilip served as ...

A University of Arkansas study showed cold plasma shows promise as a seed treatment against fall armyworm and promoted rice ...

MANILA, Philippines — The country’s rice imports in the first two months plunged by almost 35 percent on an annual basis to a little over 500,000 metric tons, the Bureau of Plant Industry said.

If the weed reaches a rice field, it could twine around the rice plants, causing them to fall and resulting in a drop in the harvest. Alligatorweed was first confirmed in Japan in 1989 ...

“Insecticides we use labeled in rice -the pyrethroids ... it often takes away the host plant where the armyworms were feeding. “We found fall armyworms crawling out of a cut pasture today ...

Sulfate from acid rain, sewage treatment plants, mines and bacteria is creating a harmful byproduct affecting wild rice in Minnesota. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency and University of Minnesota ...

The same substance that paints the sky with the Northern Lights also appears to enhance plant growth and insect defense, ...