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Jan. 19, 2023 The health-benefits of brown rice are well-known and widely advertised. But what exactly confers these excellent properties has been subject to speculation until now. Researchers have recently ...
Feb. 14, 2024 From lab-grown chicken to cricket-derived protein, these innovative alternatives offer hope for a planet struggling with the environmental and ethical impacts of industrial agriculture. Now, ...
Feb. 22, 2022 Growing rice alongside aquatic animals can reduce the need for chemical fertilizers and pesticides, as well as increase farmers' yields, shows a new ...
Mar. 21, 2024 Around 32 per cent of the world's population live in countries that do not adhere to the World Health Organization's recommendations on safe limits of arsenic in drinking ...
Feb. 21, 2024 Weedy rice is an agricultural pest with a global economic impact. It is an aggressive weed that outcompetes cultivated rice and causes billions of dollars in yield losses worldwide. A study offers ...
June 9, 2021 Scientists are one step closer to understanding why some corals can weather climate change better than others, and the secret could be in a specific protein that produces a natural ...
Sep. 6, 2022 The consumption of rice accounts for nearly half the total intake of cadmium, a toxic heavy metal, among humans. Now, scientists have found that the duplication of a cadmium transporter gene in the ...
Nov. 8, 2021 How do you like your rice? Sticky, fluffy, brown, or white? These qualities, in addition to grain length, width, appearance, and other traits, are hugely important predictors of rice sales and ...
Jan. 16, 2023 Reducing the number of stomata that rice have makes them more tolerant to salt water, according to ...
Dec. 7, 2022 A new study analyzing stone tools from southern China provides the earliest evidence of rice harvesting, dating to as early as 10,000 years ago. The researchers identified two methods of harvesting ...