Sentences with phrase «rice plants»

More CO2 in the atmosphere makes rice plants grow faster, and the extra plant growth supplies soil microorganisms with extra energy, pumping up their metabolism.

This was an insightful look into the history of rice, followed by a messy, but totally worth it, hands - on rice planting experience in a neighboring village.

What's more, rice plants absorb arsenic particularly well; they accumulate 10 times more than other grains like wheat.

For example, the researchers thought if arsenic was taken up by rice plants, that poison might be detrimental to the blast fungus.

Indeed, these plants in this field looked just like every other rice plant I've harvested in my life.

I do research on insect pest and disease resistance and drought tolerance to develop rice plants that are sturdy under unfavorable conditions so that their grain yield is not drastically reduced.

It was rice planting season in my hometown when I went home to visit last year and it it brought me back to many childhood memories.

A second microbe, EA106, mobilizes an iron plaque, or shield, to begin accumulating on the roots of rice plants when arsenic is present, effectively blocking uptake of the poison.

Savour the simplicity of rice planting with local farmers.

Previously, the UD team identified two species of bacteria that come to the rescue of rice plants when the plants are under attack.

The National Academy of Science and Technology Philippines deplores the disruption of the multilocational field experiment by anti-GMO elements who uprooted the month - old transplanted golden rice plants in Pili, Camarines Sur on 08 August 2013.

The start of the first Green Revolution in rice, Zeigler thought back, could have been in July 1963 when IRRI's first breeder, Peter Jennings, found F2 (second - generation) rice plants from a set of 38 crosses involving dwarf rice varieties from Taiwan.

The team counteracted this problem by combining plants carrying favorable Gn1a genes with those that had a gene that favors shorter plant height, which resulted in rice plants with better survival rates.

He managed to hack bacteria so they would perform a vital service for young rice plants, helping them utilize nitrogen and grow more efficiently with less fertilizer.

The researcher and her PhD student Simrat Pal Singh succeeded in genetically modifying rice plants such that in addition to sufficient levels of iron and zinc, they also produce significant levels of beta - carotene in the endosperm of the grain compared to normal varieties.

The UD finding gives hope that a natural, low - cost solution — a probiotic for rice plants — may be in sight to protect this global food source from accumulating harmful levels of one of the deadliest poisons on the planet.

Nearly all the Golden Rice plants at the site were uprooted and left on site.

Scientists have pinpointed a gene that enables rice plants to produce around 20 % more grain by increasing uptake of phosphorus, an important, but limited, plant nutrient.

So how could beneficial microbes such as EA105 and EA106 be applied to protect rice plants?

Assuming you've already received this month's worldwide Rice Plant Bed DLC, you'll get the Sushi Platter item.

«Real farmers will not trash a living rice plant,» said Boncodin, who is a native of the region where the vandalism took place.

That colossal waste may soon be a thing of the past: SUB1A, a gene discovered by researchers with the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and the University of California, allows rice plants carrying the gene to live completely submerged for two weeks.

When little water is available, rice plants make more abscisic acid in their roots.

Agronomists went on to breed «semi-dwarf» rice plants using the same principles, fundamentally altering a crop that half the world relied on for daily sustenance.

Farmers are set to reclaim salt - ravaged land thanks to a single rice plant born of two unlikely parents that is spawning a new generation of rice that has double the salinity tolerance of other rice.

Rice plants take up arsenic through the soil because the dangerous substance behaves much like silica, which rice needs to grow.

But the team discovered through its comparative genomics of various microorganisms that Xanthomonas oryzae — a pathogenic bacteria that causes rice plant leaves to turn white before killing the plant — does not have Glu racemase genes.

The rice blast fungus M. oryzae infects rice plants through a structure called an appressorium.

As rice plants absorb phosphate, a nutrient needed for growth, they also take up arsenic, which has a similar chemical structure.

«We wanted to see if we could use a combinatorial approach — a «cocktail» of organisms — that would help rice plants with two simultaneous stresses attacking them,» Bais said, from his laboratory at the Delaware Biotechnology Institute.

He is using genomics strategies to incorporate yield enhancing traits and genes for improving indica rice plant architecture to enhance yield potential.

By selecting the best performing rice plants and using them to breed new rice varieties, rice farmers, and more recently rice breeders, have been changing the genetic composition of rice to generate new and improved rice varieties for thousands of years.

Although Cajun territory is not large, and much can be seen in 3 to 5 days, all the attractions and restaurants can take months to cover and there are overlaps between the two (such as tours of the Konriko and Crystal Rice Plants or the Tabasco Factory and botanical gardens on Avery Island).

Visit the Regenstein Learning Campus with the Nature Play Garden and relocated Butterflies & Blooms exhibition and the Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice Plant Conservation Science Center with interactive exhibits and the Green Roof Garden.

Rice can contain high amounts of inorganic arsenic because rice plants tend to absorb arsenic more readily than other plants.

CC: Brown rice and white rice are from the same rice plants.

In answering that question, Jackson traced not just the story of the metal - loving rice plant, but also the tangled and troubling path of a notorious poison through our past and present.

The new plant produced more than 30 percent more grain than regular rice plants without the generous helpings of fertilizer commonly used today.

A rigid rice plant allows sunlight to reach leaves on even the lowest parts of the plant, improving photosynthesis and therefore grain production; it also allows plants to be placed in closer proximity without interfering with each other's growth.

The research team, led by Harsh Bais, associate professor of plant and soil sciences in UD's College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, has identified a naturally occurring microbe living right in the soil around rice plants — Pseudomonas chlororaphis EA105 — that inhibits the devastating fungus known as rice blast.

He also sees an added plus — fortifying rice plants with iron would not only reduce arsenic, but also increase the grain's iron content as a nutritional benefit.

According to Bais, the rice blast fungus (Magnaporthe oryzae) attacks rice plants through spores resembling pressure plugs that penetrate the plant tissue.

At present, we do not yet sufficiently understand whether or not and to what extent rice plants absorb the arsenic that bonded with sulphur and to what extent this adversely affects their metabolic processes.

Unlike present - day rice plants, the new variety, which was developed at the IRRI's research station in the Philippines, produces seed heads on every shoot.

But the hard part — the creative work of designing a new rice plant form — is now past, says Fischer.

Tiny one - millimetre wasps, also called fairy flies, are drawn to suck the sesame flower's nectar; then they lay their eggs into the eggs of the leafhoppers on nearby rice plants.

That very same gene exists in all wild rice plants, including varieties that grow abundantly in poor conditions.

For example, fish can also be a source of the compound, and their bodies metabolize arsenic differently than rice plants do, she said.