Hybrid rice—bred from two different parents—greatly contributes to food security. However, the process of hybrid seed production is labor intensive, and fully mechanized hybrid rice breeding is ...

Rice isn't grown in the United Kingdom, but this staple of many Asian diets is imported and consumed in Britain every year.

Coming into the third year of severe drought, state and federal surface water restrictions are forcing rice farmers in Butte County and other north state counties to plant less acres of rice than ...