Nigel Chaffey examines a book that aims to plant the seed of botanical curiosity to see if it bears fruit.
Tag - Rice
Nigel Chaffey
Plant hormones to help prevent Striga invasion
Blocking the biosynthesis of canonical strigolactones by TIS108, a specific enzyme inhibitor, significantly lowered Striga infestation without affecting rice growth.
Eurekalert
Dale Maylea
In cold weather, rice pollen suffers in a variety of ways as it struggles to develop
A team of botanists in Japan have overturned decades-old assumptions about how cold stress leads to pollen sterility in rice.
Alun Salt
How much nitrogen does rice need to produce high yields?
Researchers use 3D modelling of rice canopies to determine how nitrogen availability affects photosynthetic productivity.
Rachel Shekar
Tracking down the DNA for salt removal in a rice leaf sheath
The ability for salt removal at the leaf sheath level is considered to be one of the major mechanisms associated with salt tolerance in rice
Fi Gennu
From computer to field: can in silico modelling can help us to optimise rice for possible droughts?
Advances in computational models may allow us to quickly predict responses of important food crops to environmental stresses in the field, and to identify the genetic basis of these.
Liam Elliott
The scented story of rice
A guest post by Debarati Chakraborty The power of aroma compounds to offer physical, mental and spiritual delight is one of the oldest enchanting tales. Aroma stimulates the limbic system, one of the primitive parts of...
Exploring the salt tolerance of the Nona Bokra rice landrace
Salt stress is a major limiting factor for crop production across the world. Rice is particularly sensitive to salinity, with both plant growth and grain yield significantly impaired under saline conditions. However...
William Salter
Understanding the longevity of rice seeds
How long can a genebank keep seeds? New research looks into the variability of seed longevity in Indica rice.
OsDCL1 activation compromises resistance against rice blast fungus
Rice blast, caused by the pathogen Magnaporthe oryzae, is the most important fungal disease of cultivated rice (Oryza sativa). Salvador-Guirao et al. investigate the contribution of DCL1, the core component for microRNA...
Alex Assiry
Abscisic acid affects rice cell wall phosphate remobilization and P transporation
Abscisic acid (ABA) is a well-studied phytohormone known to be involved in sub-sets of stress responses in plants, such as iron (Fe) deficiency and phosphorus (P) deficiency in Arabidopsis. However, whether ABA is...
botanyone
Plants and animals in sexual harmony
Nigel Chaffey discovers that more plants thought to leave pollination to luck possess the power of puppetry.
Different types of rice tiller responses to nitrogen
Tillering is an important agronomic trait for rice population quality and grain production. In a recent study published in AoB PLANTS, Wang et al. found that nitrogen fertilizer application increased the number of rice...
AoBPLANTS
Reducing P uptake by plants
Some things are hard to digest, but is an excess of phosphorus really one of them?
