Bacterial blight (BB) is a serious plant disease that mainly affects rice plants, especially in warm, humid regions. Due to ...

At any given time, Lundberg is testing thousands of rice varieties in their greenhouse and test field. Over the past 10 years, Lundberg has trialed over 80,000 unique breeding lines, and in the ...

The 2026 Arkansas Rice Processing Program’s Industry Alliance Meeting will be held May 19 in Fayetteville, Ark. Speakers ...

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 ...

(a) Pictures of PF- and field-cultivated rice seeds; (b) growth cycle of PF- and field-cultivated rice seeds; (c) picture of rice speed breeding. A recent study has brought to light some exciting ...

A study reveals that altered expression of a key gene led to the loss of perennial traits in cultivated rice, opening ...

Rice is a staple food for billions of people worldwide, but environmental and climate changes threaten the agricultural yields necessary to support the needs of an ever growing human population. An ...

After 20 years of research, Chinese scientists have discovered the immune mechanism by which some rice resists bacterial ...

Brand celebrates 50th anniversary of its nursery: The only specialty organic rice breeding program of its kind in the U.S. This announcement coincides with the 50th anniversary of Lundberg’s ...

An international team has succeeded in propagating a commercial hybrid rice strain as a clone through seeds with 95% efficiency. This could lower the cost of hybrid rice seed, making high-yielding, ...