When you rinse your rice before cooking it, do you discard the cloudy water and move on? If so, you are dumping an easy and affordable DIY liquid plant fertilizer down the drain. While rice water ...

A new study finds that microplastic pollution reduces plant photosynthesis, threatening global food security and worsening ...

Sulfate from acid rain, sewage treatment plants, mines and bacteria is creating a harmful ... than 10 milligrams per liter can’t be discharged to bodies of water that grow wild rice, said Amy Myrbo, a ...

The study specifically investigated rice plant defense against fall armyworm. Seeds were treated with cold plasma and then irrigated with cold plasma-activated water, which is water that has been ...

Finding staple foods such as rice that can survive an unreliable water supply is essential to the world’s long-term food security. So, too, is finding ways to make the use of water in all areas ...