Agriculture

A high-yielding genetically protected cotton variety developed by Indian public-sector breeders is drawing attention across the cotton-growing belt of North...

A pair of experimental biostimulants derived from corn and yeast have shown a remarkable ability to coax greenhouse crops into...

Beneath every productive farm field lies a hidden civilization of staggering complexity. A single gram of fertile agricultural soil can...

Juiciness is the quality that can make or break a burger, whether it comes from a cattle feedlot or a...

A previously overlooked transcription factor in the fungus that causes Fusarium wilt of tomato has been shown to underpin the...

In the mist-wrapped hills of southern Yunnan, China, a climbing vine with a long history in traditional medicine is quietly...

Every year, plant breeders and biotechnologists around the world rely on a seemingly magical property of plant cells: their ability...

One of the most successful pest-management innovations ever developed for African smallholders is about to get a nutritional and climatic...

University students are famously bad at feeding themselves, but a new study from Brazil offers one of the more detailed...

Flavonoid C-glycosides occupy a curious corner of food chemistry: they are abundant in some of the world’s most familiar plant...

Microplastics have turned up in yet another staple of the global diet, and this time the evidence comes with unusually...

Researchers in Xinjiang, China, have unveiled a new artificial intelligence framework that teaches a segmentation network exactly when and where...

For decades, entomopathogenic fungi have earned their reputation the hard way: by infecting and killing insects. Species such as Beauveria...

As heat waves grow longer and more punishing across the world’s tomato-growing regions, scientists have been racing to understand how...

Rapeseed, one of the world’s most important oilseed crops and a cornerstone of global vegetable oil production, has long presented...

Bacterial wilt, caused by the soil-borne pathogen Ralstonia solanacearum, is one of the most destructive plant diseases in the world,...

A devastating bacterial pathogen that travels inside the bodies of tiny psyllid insects has long puzzled plant scientists: two closely...

Maize is one of the hungriest crops on the planet, demanding enormous quantities of nitrogen fertilizer to fill its kernels...

There is a moment, familiar to anyone who has dropped a quail egg into boiling water, when a humble ingredient...

Few plants embody the paradox of modern agriculture quite like Chenopodium album L., the ubiquitous annual known to farmers as...