Roots of the GMO rice (above) have less methane-producing bacteria than control rice (below). Photo courtesy of Nature Publishing Group.
Rice plants try this one weird trick to cut greenhouse-gas emissions and increase yield.
A new genetically modified rice plant reduces emissions of methane, a greenhouse gas 20 times more powerful than carbon dioxide. But the rice is at least 10 or 20 years from being available to farmers.
Anna Nowogrodzki, science writer 