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Summary of USDA-ARS Research on the Interrelationship of Genetic and Cultural Management Factors That Impact Grain Arsenic Accumulation in Rice
In the United States, there has been evidence for over a century of a relationship between arsenic and a physiological disease in rice known as straighthead. Straighthead causes the seedhead of the plant to be empty or partially empty, and can result in complete yield loss in farmers' fields. Although it is not common in U.S. rice fields, straighthead has been reported in rice growing areas around the world. More

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