Scientists have laid bare the "life code" of rice. Two groups of researchers report a draft DNA sequence of the plant - a staple for more than half the world's population - in the journal Science. The ...

From left: Ahmad Elgazzar, graduate student in chemical and biomolecular engineering at Rice; Haotian Wang, associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, materials science and ...

Researchers from 10 countries have completed sequencing of the rice genome. Their success should speed up improvements to the crop that feeds more than half the world's population. Investigators ...

Known by many people as the quintessential part of "a San Francisco treat," rice has become the first plant crop to be genetically sequenced by scientists, according to a report released in Nature ...