A new kind of genetically modified rice with a higher starch content could produce more food while at the same time reducing the methane, a greenhouse gas, that's emitted when it grows, the journal Nature reported. Researchers created the genetically modified rice, called SUSIBA2, by using a gene from barley. The barley gene influenced how carbon in the rice plant was distributed. Less carbon in the genetically modified plants went to the roots, which meant that methane-producing bacteria in the soil had fewer nutrients to consume. Compared to control rice, the genetically modified variety emitted anywhere from 10 percent to less than 1 percent of the methane that normally would have been emitted, depending on the plant's age when the measurement was taken. Read More?at ?www.news.vice.com