Spraying rice with zinc oxide nanoparticles protects yields during heat waves, study finds

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Nov 5, 2024, 9:00 am297 pts
A small team of horticulturists in China and the U.S. has found that spraying rice plants with a zinc oxide nanoparticle solution helps them better handle the stress of a heat wave. In their study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the group conducted experiments involving spraying…

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