RICHVALE — A new seven-foot-tall, yellow-flowered hazard to waterways and rice fields is popping up again in southern Butte County, creating a new worry for the county Agricultural Commissioner. The ...

According to the Food and Agricultural Organization, rice is the world's third-largest crop after wheat and maize. It's the staple food in large regions of the world, and with increasing demand and ...

With the help of modern genetic technology and the resources of the International Rice GeneBank, which contains more than 112,000 different types of rice, evolutionary biologist Kenneth Olsen has been ...

This copycat is a weed that’s extremely difficult to find, has lots of evolutionary protections to ensure its ongoing survival, and has a significant negative effect on rice crops around the world.

The winged primrose willow has pretty yellow flowers, thrives under many different growing conditions and readily reseeds. That all sounds nice enough, until it starts taking over rice fields, the ...

Resistance to herbicides in the most important weeds threatens the sustainability of California rice. Weed-competitive rice cultivars could be a low-cost and safe non-chemical addition to an ...

Cibus and Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT) have entered into an agreement to introduce Cibus’ proprietary herbicide tolerance trait into elite rice germplasm for Latin America ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Weeds are the main constraint in the adoption of zero-till, dry-seeded rice systems because weeds and rice emerge simultaneously in these ...

Flora Derounian is affiliated with the University of Gloucestershire. In an era before the dawn of pesticides and mechanisation, an all-female workforce was employed to “disinfect” and harvest Italy’s ...

The evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould once asked whether the living world would be different "if the tape were played twice." If there were a duplicate Earth evolving quietly beside ours, would ...