Rice has the rare ability to germinate and elongate a coleoptile under oxygen-deficient conditions. Here's why.
Tag - Rice
AJ Cann
Growing plastic plants (it’s not what you think)
How do you grow more rice? By changing the way it photosynthesises.
Auxin distribution and nitrate in rice roots
A study of rice cultivars with differing responsiveness to nitrate finds that initiation of lateral roots is only enhanced with higher responsiveness.
Direct and reverse pollen-mediated gene flow between GM rice and red rice weed
The potential risks of genetically modified crops must be identified before their commercialization. In this context, several studies have reported the transfer of transgenes from transgenic rice to red rice weed...
AoBPLANTS
Phenotypic characters of rice landraces reveal independent lineages of short-grain aromatic indica rice
Crop domestication is a remarkable example of the evolution of wild plants into cultivable forms through human selection. Following the domestication of rice almost 10,000 years ago, ancient farmers selected many rice...
Techniques used to modify a plant genome also affect its epigenome
Genetically modified plants are usually produced using tissue culture, but techniques used to modify a plant genome also affect its epigenome.
Scaring the crows…
One way of increasing crop productivity is to increase the amount of grain or other harvestable product that is actually harvested from the plant. To that end scarecrows were invented by human beings, although their...
Nigel Chaffey
Relationships of aluminium and nitrogen in rice
Acidic soils are characterized by more ammonium and more available (and thus potential toxic) aluminium compared with neutral-to-calcareous soils, which have more nitrate and less available aluminium. Zhao et al...
botanyone
Making plants work harder [or, Vorsprung durch Botanik]
Not content with just being grateful for all of the marvellous things that plants do and provide, we humans always seem to want them to do even more. Well, in that vein there has been a veritable avalanche of stories...
Rice finally makes impact!
The Springer-published, peer-reviewed, economically entitled research journal Rice, which is devoted to… err… rice, has received its first Impact Factor (a metric by which journals are evaluated and ranked – rightly or...
Agricultural piracy and the domestication of rice
The origins of rice have been cast in a new light by research published in PLoS Genetics. By reconciling two theories, the authors show that the domestication of rice occurred at least twice independently but with...
Aerenchyma formation in rice under flooding
Aerenchyma formation in rice under flooding One of the adaptive traits of rice that allow it to withstand submergence is the presence of aerenchyma, which allow transport of oxygen to submerged organs. Parlanti et al. ...
What happens now to agriculture in Japan?
There’s an interesting post on Alex Tiller’s Blog on Agriculture and Farming that I missed earlier. Alex asks Will Agriculture in Japan Survive? It’s a timely question as the recent tsunami hit over...
Alun Salt
Rice
Image: Katsushika Hokusai, Watermill at Onden (1826–1833). Rice, or strictly speaking the hulls, has been proposed as a substitute for perlite – itself a substitute for soil in plant cultivation () – by Christophe...
