In a bold step toward sustainable space travel, scientists are engineering a radically small, protein-rich rice that can grow ...

Moon-Rice project develops super-dwarf, protein-rich rice varieties for space missions and extreme Earth environments.

The future of sustained space habitation depends on our ability to grow fresh food away from Earth. The revolutionary new ...

Now, the Moon-Rice project, a collaborative effort led by the Italian Space Agency and three Italian universities, aims to develop a “super-dwarf” rice variety ideal for sustained space habitation and ...

Learn about the Moon-Rice project, which aims to create rice crops that can grow in space and help keep astronauts healthy.

Despite rice being the staple food for more than half of the world's population, its cultivation remains highly ...

You might also surround plants with netting to protect them from birds. Keep the surrounding soil free of weeds throughout the growing season. Separating the rice from the chaff, and other steps Your ...

Twelve years ago, rice breeders with Lundberg Family Farms crossed two rice plant “parents” in hopes of cultivating a better black pearl rice plant. After growing generations and generations ...

Rice cultivation is responsible for around 12% of global methane emissions, ... The rice plants from this crossbreeding consistently released root exudates with low fumarate and high ethanol ...

Dorian Q. Fuller's research explores the origins and evolution of rice cultivation, distinguishing between African and Asian ...

Li and his team in China set out to find rice plants that could still thrive in hotter temperatures. They planted more than 530 varieties in four locations where nighttime temperatures have increased.

Output of rice and white corn was up to 1.2 million metric tons last year, 29% more than in 2022, though that boost is still leagues below production of 3.4 million tons a decade ago, according to ...