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Rice

Rice (Oryza sativa, and in Africa Oryza glaberrima) is a cereal grass of the family Poaceae and the staple food for a large share of the world's population, providing a major source of dietary carbohydrate and energy. Cultivated predominantly in flooded paddy systems as well as upland and rainfed environments, rice …

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 84× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2998-1506 🗓 Reviewed June 2026

Overview

Rice (Oryza sativa, and in Africa Oryza glaberrima) is a cereal grass of the family Poaceae and the staple food for a large share of the world's population, providing a major source of dietary carbohydrate and energy. Cultivated predominantly in flooded paddy systems as well as upland and rainfed environments, rice production is shaped by water management, soil fertility, and nutrient cycling, including nitrogen dynamics and leaching from paddy soils. Genetic improvement is central to raising yield and resilience: epigenetic regulation, marker-assisted and precision breeding, and the study of stress responses to drought and salinity inform the development of higher-yielding, climate-adapted cultivars. Precision-agriculture approaches further optimize input use and yield, while paddy fields also constitute ecosystems supporting biodiversity. Research relevant to this area examines rice epigenetic pathways and their implication for rapid breeding, rice yield advances under Precision Agriculture, nitrogen leaching estimation from paddy soil, conservation machinery for cultivation in rice-based systems, the effects of drought and salt stress on cereal crops with proteomic and physiological analysis, and scientific and technological interventions for precision in plant genetics and breeding. This peer-reviewed literature reflects the agronomic, genetic, soil-nutrient, and precision-farming dimensions of rice as a staple crop, situating Oryza within the broader study of crop production, breeding, and sustainable agriculture.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

2018

Emerging Roles of Plant Circular RNAs

Zhu Qian-HaoCorresponding author
CSIRO Agriculture and Food, GPO Box 1700, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
Exact topic Plant Cell Development Cited by 43 doi:10.14302/issn.2832-5311.jpcd-18-1955

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 84 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

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Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Precision Agriculture (ISSN 2998-1506).

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