Agriculture

Researchers in Pakistan have shown that an edible coating made from fish scale gelatin and ajwain seed extract can dramatically...

In a discovery that could reshape how farmers defend one of the world’s most important staple crops, researchers in China...

Beneath the cracked, chalky surfaces of southern China’s degraded karst terrain, an unexpected biological empire has been quietly holding the...

Timing is everything in the life of a plant. Flower too early and a late frost can destroy the reproductive...

Conservation agriculture has been promoted across sub-Saharan Africa as a way to rebuild degraded soils, boost yields, and buffer smallholder...

In the semi-arid farmlands of Banaskantha district in North Gujarat, two fields separated by only a few kilometers can behave...

Probiotics have become one of the fastest-growing categories in the global functional food market, celebrated for their ability to ease...

A dairy farm is usually thought of as the end of a story that begins in a field: grass and...

Two of West Africa’s most familiar plants, the medicinal shrub Vernonia amygdalina, widely known as bitter leaf, and the aggressive...

Cassava is one of the most quietly important crops on Earth. Across sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and tropical Asia, this...

Mangrove forests are among the most powerful carbon reservoirs on Earth, locking away vast quantities of so-called blue carbon in...

Deep in the hills and valleys of Northeastern India, thousands of rice landraces have been quietly evolving alongside one of...

Blueberry plants are famously fragile when water becomes scarce. Unlike many crops, they sport a shallow root system that lacks...

As heat waves, frosts and droughts increasingly batter the world’s wheat fields, a team of researchers in China has unveiled...

Lactic acid bacteria isolated from kimchi, the staple Korean fermented vegetable dish, may offer a powerful and strain-specific shield against...

One of the world’s most destructive crop pathogens may have just revealed its Achilles’ heel. Botrytis cinerea, the fungus behind...

A humble grain long relegated to the margins of the cereal aisle is stepping back into the scientific spotlight. Tartary...

A team of European researchers has unveiled one of the most extensive annotated image collections ever assembled for apple tree...

Grasslands cover roughly forty percent of the planet’s land surface, yet scientists have long struggled to keep tabs on the...

Every spring, farmers around the world entrust billions of seeds to the soil, and every spring a substantial fraction of...