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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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.