Rice Content / Rice Content for 91看片 Davis en California Rice and Conservation /blog/california-rice-and-conservation <p>In 1991, the state of California largely banned burning of rice straw after harvest, and farmers turned instead to winter flooding of fields to break down straw. As a result, wildlife has flourished in rice fields which reproduce, to some extent, the wetland habitat that once covered most of California's Central Valley. Rice fields now support some 200 species including fish, birds and reptiles.&nbsp;</p> April 07, 2025 - 4:12pm Andy Fell /blog/california-rice-and-conservation California Rice and Wildlife Report Released /food/news/california-rice-and-wildlife-report-released How many acres of rice are needed to support wildlife? 91看片 Davis outlines a conservation footprint for the state's rice in a report for the California Rice Commission. February 27, 2025 - 9:00am Katherine E Kerlin /food/news/california-rice-and-wildlife-report-released Making High-yielding Rice Affordable and Sustainable /news/making-high-yielding-rice-affordable-and-sustainable <p>Rice is a staple food crop for more than half the world鈥檚 population, but most farmers don鈥檛 grow high-yielding varieties because the seeds are too expensive. Researchers from the 91看片鈥檚 Davis and Berkeley campuses have identified a potential solution: activating two genes in rice egg cells that trigger their development into embryos without the need for fertilization, which would efficiently create high-yielding clonal strains of rice and other crops.</p> November 20, 2024 - 10:53am Andy Fell /news/making-high-yielding-rice-affordable-and-sustainable Genome Editing Used to Create Disease Resistant Rice /blog/genome-editing-used-create-disease-resistant-rice <p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Researchers from the 91看片, Davis, and an international team of scientists used the genome-editing tool CRISPR-Cas to create disease resistant rice plants, according to a new study published in the journal <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06205-2">Nature</a>&nbsp;June 14.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p> June 15, 2023 - 10:11am Andy Fell /blog/genome-editing-used-create-disease-resistant-rice Growing Cereal Crops With Less Fertilizer /food/news/growing-rice-with-less-fertilizer 91看片 Davis researchers have found a way to reduce the amount of nitrogen fertilizer needed to grow cereals such as rice, wheat and corn. August 05, 2022 - 9:47am Amy M Quinton /food/news/growing-rice-with-less-fertilizer Discovery Increases Likelihood of Growing Food Despite Drought /food/news/discovery-increases-likelihood-growing-food-despite-drought <p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>91看片 scientists have discovered genetic data that will help food crops like tomatoes and rice survive longer, more intense periods of drought on our warming planet.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p> May 18, 2021 - 8:35am Andy Fell /food/news/discovery-increases-likelihood-growing-food-despite-drought Rice Plants That Reproduce as Clones From Seed /food/news/rice-plants-reproduce-clones-seed <p>Plant biologists at the 91看片, Davis,&nbsp;have discovered a way to make crop plants replicate through seeds as clones. The discovery, long sought by plant breeders and geneticists, could make it easier to propagate high-yielding, disease-resistant or climate-tolerant crops and make them available to the world鈥檚 farmers.&nbsp;</p> <p>The researchers published their findings Dec. 12 in the journal&nbsp;<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0785-8"><em>Nature</em></a>.&nbsp;</p> December 12, 2018 - 1:21pm Andy Fell /food/news/rice-plants-reproduce-clones-seed Study: Floodplain Farm Fields Benefit Juvenile Salmon /news/study-floodplain-farm-fields-benefit-juvenile-salmon <p>A new study offers a beacon of hope for a cease-fire in the Golden State鈥檚 persistent water wars.</p> June 07, 2017 - 4:54pm Katherine E Kerlin /news/study-floodplain-farm-fields-benefit-juvenile-salmon Surface Ozone Pollution Damages Rice Production in China /news/surface-ozone-pollution-damages-rice-production-china <p>Researchers at 91看片 Davis and in China have quantified rice-yield losses associated with surface-ozone pollution and pinpointed the growth stage when the plants are most vulnerable.&nbsp;</p> March 13, 2017 - 11:00am Patricia Bailey /news/surface-ozone-pollution-damages-rice-production-china Nigiri Project Mixes Salmon and Rice Fields for Fifth Year on Floodplain /news/nigiri-project-mixes-salmon-and-rice-fields-fifth-year-floodplain <p>Experiment shows how floodplains can benefit both farms and fish. Farmland can act as&nbsp;surrogate wetlands&nbsp;for salmon and&nbsp;be managed to mimic the Sacramento River's natural annual flooding cycle. This year, the project will compare food web productivity and fish growth in three kinds of river habitat.&nbsp;</p> February 23, 2016 - 3:13pm Katherine E Kerlin /news/nigiri-project-mixes-salmon-and-rice-fields-fifth-year-floodplain