Where is commmercialized GM rice grown? Nowhere, yet. What GM rice research is going on now? Read all about IRRI's efforts to develop nutrient enriched, drought-hardy and C4 rice.

A US$3 million donation has established the Lee Foundation Rice Scholarship Program to educate and train future rice scientists.

Bacterial blight (BB), caused by Xanthomonas oryzae pathovar oryzae (Xoo), is a major rice disease in Asia and Africa. Xoo possesses virulence factors for pathogenicity and race differentiation that c...

The plant cell wall provides structural support and serves as a barrier against pathogen invasion. Rice grassy stunt virus (RGSV) infection suppresses genes involved in cell wall biosynthesis, but the...

Rice cultivation, a staple for over 70% of India’s population and a major global export, significantly contributes to anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, alongside exacerbating water stress and fa...

The study aims to investigate out the effects of Azotobacter chroococcum and Serendipita indica inoculation, individually and in combination, on photosynthetic pigments, relative water content (RWC), and morpho-agronomic traits in rice varieties 1718 and 1121.

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A new study published in Environmental and Experimental Botany uses advanced bioimaging techniques to reveal how rice roots actively reshape the chemical environment of flooded soils at a microscopic scale.

Researchers from the University of Oxford, Nanjing Agricultural University, and Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (Chinese Academy of Sciences) have finally identified the master

LITTLE ROCK, AR – The Arkansas Rice Research and Promotion Board approved $3,080,000 in funding for 34 research projects at its February 25, 2026 meeting. The approved projects will support […]

CO2 fertilization effect (CFE) on rice yield largely differed between sub-species Regional CFE on rice yield could be improved after considering sub-species Rice yield have been projected more a...

Pigmented rice contains beneficial phenolic antioxidants but analysing them across germplasm collections is laborious and time-consuming. Here we util…

Rice viruses seriously threaten rice cultivation and cause significant economic losses, but they have not yet been systematically identified, with only 20 rice-infecting viruses reported. Here, we perform a large-scale analysis of 17,115 RNA-seq libraries spanning 24 Oryza species across 51 countries. Using de novo assembly and homology-based methods, we identify 810 complete or near-complete viruses, including 276 known viruses and 534 novel viruses. Given the high divergence and atypical genome organizations of novel viruses, more than a half of them are tentatively assigned to 1 new order, 61 new families, and at least 104 new genera. Utilizing homology-independent approaches, we additionally identify 49 divergent RNA-dependent RNA polymerases (RdRPs), which are confirmed by protein structural alignment. Furthermore, we analyze the metadata of related Sequence Read Archive (SRA) libraries and estimated viral abundance in each library, leading to the screening of 427 viruses closely