Nov 10 (Reuters) - While Monsanto Co is considered a leader in research, development and marketing of genetically modified crops, a handful of other corporate giants are also staking a claim to ...

A rice field in Bengal, India. Rice is a staple crop for billions of people, but it has proved difficult to bring high-yield hybrid rice strainers to farmers. UC Davis scientists have developed a ...

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 ...

There has been increasing concern about the availability of good, high quality germ plasm in conventional seeds for several years. Several aspects of this issue are currently being discussed and ...

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Rice grown for seed rice was the focus of a yearlong investigation by the Arkansas Rice Processing Program using X-ray imaging to determine the impact of higher drying ...