Soilborne diseases continue to threaten crop health, particularly in valuable medicinal plants like Panax notoginseng.

Researchers have identified two key genes, SbSLT1 and SbSLT2, that help sorghum resist Striga by preventing its germination.

In collaboration with professors at the University, researchers are working on a new nitrogen-retaining corn breed.

Rice is a staple food for half the world's population, but its cultivation leads to significant emissions of the greenhouse ...

Scientists from Prof. XIE Qi's lab at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences ...

Using traditional crossbreeding, researchers have created a new strain of rice that produces much less methane, a potent ...

When Bloomberg published a report on Apr. 8, 2021, identifying Bangladesh as the 12th largest methane emitter globally, attributing a significant share to rice cultivation, the country’s rice ...

Rice cultivation is responsible for around 12% of global methane emissions, and these emissions are expected to increase with global warming and as the human population continues to grow.

Researchers agree that work needs to be done to understand the impact of changing growing systems on this key soil-borne ...

This hybrid rice represents a significant advancement towards sustainable agriculture, as rice cultivation contributes to about 12% of human-made methane emissions.