"Golden Rice" (R) and ordinary rice, in the hands of a scientist at the International Rice Research Institute in The Philippines. One of the world's great humanitarian crises has a simple cause and, ...

The creativity that went in inventing McDonald’s miracle flavored rice is so beyond my little human brain that I’d have to be high as a kite to understand the magic. But oh the magic. The culinary ...

Environmental changes are to blame for a 15 percent drop in the yield of "miracle rice" -- also known as rice variety IR8 -- since the 1960s when it was first released and lauded for its superior ...

Los Baños, Philippines – Environmental changes are to blame for a 15% drop in the yield of "miracle rice" – also known as rice variety IR8 – since the 1960s when it was first released and lauded for ...

I worked on rice breeding for 35 years and developed more than 300 high-yielding rice varieties, which came to be known as miracle rice. These were widely adopted and planted all over the world. In ...

Here’s a question for the 21st century: Can science save us from ourselves? Last week, attendees at a “Climate Change and Rice” planning workshop in the Philippines were told that global warming is ...