A nutrient deficiency occurs when your body doesn’t get enough of a particular nutrient, whether that’s essential vitamins or ...

Great hopes are placed on a new way to combat plant diseases, using RNA to turn off genes that the pathogen needs to initiate ...

Therefore, it's in soil and water. Rice tends to absorb arsenic more readily than many other plants. Regular exposure to small amounts of arsenic can increase the risk of bladder, lung ...

The Public Health Agency of Canada is part of the federal health portfolio. Our activities focus on protecting against threats to public health, preventing and reducing diseases and injury, and ...