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Traditional farming preserves diversity of Thai purple rice
Does your New Year’s resolution diet include healthy whole grains? Purple rice is a whole grain with high levels of antioxidants — and high levels of genetic diversity, thanks to traditional farming...
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Rusted root: Weedy rice repeatedly evolves ‘cheater’ root traits
Weedy rice is neither wild rice nor crop rice, but rice gone rogue that has shed some traits important to people. It also is an incredibly aggressive, potentially detrimental weed that pops up almost...
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Hiding in plain sight
Early rice growers unwittingly gave barnyard grass a big hand, helping to give root to a rice imitator that is now considered one of the world’s worst agricultural weeds. New research from Zhejiang...
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Rice, know thy enemy: NSF grants $2.6M to study weedy invader
Many farmers struggle with an enemy that looks like a friend. Agricultural weeds that are close relatives of crops present a particular challenge to farmers because their physical similarities to the...
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Weedy rice is unintended legacy of Green Revolution
A new global study reveals the extent to which high-yielding rice varieties favored in the decades since the “Green Revolution” have a propensity to go feral, turning a staple food crop into a weedy...
View ArticleNine local teachers selected for Summer Teacher-Researcher Partnership
Nine local teachers have been selected by Washington University in St. Louis faculty for the Summer Teacher-Researcher Partnership, an innovative initiative from the Institute for School Partnership....
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Weedy rice has become herbicide resistant through rapid evolution
In a paper published Sept. 8 in the journal Communications Biology, scientists from Washington University in St. Louis and the University of Arkansas report that a crop pest called weedy rice has...
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Old research, new readers
Every year, the Source looks back at some of the most-read stories. Many pieces were originally published in the past year. Still, some stories from earlier years continue to attract new readers....
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Weedy rice gets competitive boost from its wild neighbors
Rice feeds the world. But a look-alike weed has many ways of getting ahead. Olsen Weedy rice is an agricultural pest with a global economic impact. It is an aggressive weed that outcompetes cultivated...
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Biologist Olsen helps launch global wild rice alliance
Biologist Kenneth Olsen, in Arts & Sciences, joined researchers from 24 countries in an effort to strengthen cooperation and solve a key problem of improving rice yields. (Photo: Joe...
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