Rice (Oryza sativa) is a major staple food for half of the world population and a model plant to investigate evolutionary developmental biology in grasses, monocot plants that compose one of the ...

This study is led by Professor Weizhen Liu (School of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China). The authors proposed a deep learning algorithm named ...

Organ development in plants mostly occurs through combinatorial activity of so-called meristems. Meristems are plant cells or tissues that give rise to new organs, similar to stem cells in human - ...

BEIJING, March 8 (Xinhua) -- Chinese scientists have deciphered the genetic basis behind the formation of clustered-spikelet rice, which has been an interest of agricultural science for nearly a ...

Rice plants and Venus flytraps share something in common that was not scientifically documented until recently. Using a faint smell to lure caterpillars into a trap, rice plants killed early-stage ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In Ukrainian culture, a spikelet of wheat is a sacred thing. An ancient symbol of fertility and harvest, it ...