Rice absorbs arsenic from soil or water much more effectively than most plants. That's in part because it is one of the only major crops grown in water-flooded conditions, which allow arsenic to ...

While it has a cute snoot, a rice weevil is a stowaway. It sneaks into your pantry as an egg that its mom laid inside a single grain of rice. Once it hatches, it turns your rice into its new home.

Twelve years ago, rice breeders with Lundberg Family Farms crossed two rice plant “parents” in hopes of cultivating a better black pearl rice plant. After growing generations and generations ...

Though recent discoveries have revealed how rice plants mitigate such threats by initiating immune responses against insect-borne viruses, the molecular mechanism by which plant hosts perceive ...

Therefore, it's in soil and water. Rice tends to absorb arsenic more readily than many other plants. Regular exposure to small amounts of arsenic can increase the risk of bladder, lung ...