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China creates super rice that reduces heart disease risk through everyday meals
By utilizing prime editing, the scientists introduced precise genetic changes that transform rice’s naturally occurring CoQ9 ...
Gene-edited rice can produce a compound that's vital for human health
A team of Chinese scientists has used targeted gene editing to develop rice that produces coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10), a vital ...
Chinese team develops strain of rice that may help cut the risk of heart disease
Scientists gene-edited rice and wheat to produce coenzyme Q10, or CoQ10 – an antioxidant used to help treat heart condition ...
Genome-edited rice shows resistance to bacterial blight in East Africa
The international Healthy Crops consortium has developed an innovative strategy to combat the disease bacterial blight (for ...
TVA selects Tom Rice as new chief financial officer ahead of historic capital campaign
The Tennessee Valley Authority selected Tom Rice, a longtime manager at the federal utility, as its new chief financial ...
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Microplastics flood Kerala’s rice fields, threaten future production, Central University study finds
The study, led by Assistant Professor Rishiram Ramanan and his PhD scholar C Amaneesh from the department's Sustainable ...
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What Happens to Your Body When You Eat Brown Rice Regularly
Brown rice is less milled, or processed, than white rice. This increases its nutritional value. Learn who stands to benefit ...
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Researchers develop rice to enhance plant-based diets
Chinese researchers have developed a new variety of rice enriched with a powerful antioxidant, Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10), offering ...
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Highly nutritious rice variety developed
Unlike humans, who produce CoQ10 with a side chain of 10 isoprene units (C50), cereal crops such as rice and wheat, as well ...
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Bangladeshi researchers pin hopes on irrigation method with real-time methane monitoring
When Bloomberg published a report on Apr. 8, 2021, identifying Bangladesh as the 12th largest methane emitter globally, attributing a significant share to rice cultivation, the country’s rice ...
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High-yield rice breed emits up to 70% less methane
Now, scientists have identified chemical compounds released by rice roots that determine how much methane the plants emit. They report that this information enabled them to breed a new strain of ...