Tag: rice

Ever since the agricultural revolution more than 5000 years ago transformed us from nomadic wanderers to settlers living in villages surrounded by fields, we have been constantly improving the yields of domesticated plants through cross breeding, and more recently, through genetic...

Climate change is expected to negatively affect agriculture through heat waves as well as unseasonal rains. To ensure that this doesn’t result in a food crisis, researchers around the world are racing to develop crop varieties that are resistant to climate...