Agriculture
Chia Seeds Show Potent Enzyme-Blocking Power That Depends on Where They Grow
Chia seeds have spent the past decade basking in superfood stardom, praised for their omega-3 fats, fiber, and complete protein....
Microbes May Hold the Key to Farming That Survives Climate Change
As global temperatures climb and weather patterns grow increasingly erratic, scientists are turning their attention to some of the smallest...
Pusa Jawahar Rice Hybrid 56: New Two-Line Hybrid Joins India’s Rice Pipeline
India’s rice research establishment has added a new name to its catalogue of hybrid varieties, with the formal notification of...
Chickpea Helps Wheat Pull More Silicon From Soil, Greenhouse Study Finds
Wheat may owe part of its hidden armor to an unlikely ally growing beside it. A new glasshouse study published...
Organic Rice Farming Rewrites the Grain Metabolome and Underground Microbiome
Rice feeds more than half of humanity, and the fine chemical details of each grain — its antioxidants, its vitamins,...
A Simple Tape Measure May Outweigh Scales: Heart Girth Predicts Weight in Zimbabwe’s Indigenous Sheep and Goats
In the semi-arid rangelands of Zimbabwe, where millions of indigenous sheep and goats form the backbone of smallholder livelihoods, a...
Scientists Map the Fluid-Solid Frontier That Shapes Every Food We Eat
Every act of cooking, drying, baking, frying, extruding or three-dimensionally printing a food depends on a deceptively simple physical event:...
Common Rice Field Weed Revealed as Hidden Reservoir of Devastating Dwarf Virus
A weed that rice farmers have long regarded as little more than a nuisance for yield and herbicide budgets has...
Monsoon Rhythms Reshape the Fertility of India’s Crucial Farming Soils
Across the wheat, rice, and mustard fields of Lucknow district in northern India, the soil beneath farmers’ feet is not...
Machine Learning Meets X-Rays to Reveal the Hidden Architecture of Pea Seeds
Every seed is a masterpiece of biological engineering, a compact package in which molecular order and cellular design are woven...
USGS Grant Places New York Undergraduates in Paid Fisheries Research Internships
A United States Geological Survey grant is continuing to open the doors of fisheries research stations across New York State...
Scientists Combine Genome and Gene Expression Data to Pinpoint Genes That Set Soybean Height
Plant height may seem like a simple trait, but in soybean it sits at the heart of one of agriculture’s...
Selenium Spray Supercharges Antioxidant-Rich Chinese Dwarf Cherry Fruit
A single trace element, applied as a simple foliar spray at just the right moments of fruit development, can transform...
Human-Centered Design May Close Agriculture’s Stubborn Technology Adoption Gap
Despite a decade of breathless headlines about artificial intelligence, agricultural robots, and fully autonomous farms, the berries, avocados, oranges, and...
Rare Italian Forest Herb Defies Expectations With Surprising Genetic Resilience and Adaptive Leaf Traits
Deep in the mountain forests of southern Italy, a rare blue-flowered herb has been quietly rewriting what scientists think they...
Scientists Map the Genes That Decide the Color and Milling Quality of Foxtail Millet Grain
Foxtail millet has fed communities across northern China for thousands of years, yet the genetic secrets behind its most marketable...
Scientists Map a Genome-Editing Roadmap to Cold-Resilient Peppers
Peppers are among the world’s most valuable vegetable crops, prized for their culinary versatility, vibrant pigments, and nutritional content, yet...
Korean Fermented Soy Pastes Turn Ordinary Butter Into a Flavor-Rich Functional Food
Butter has long been treated as a simple staple: cream, churned and washed, molded into blocks and prized mainly for...
New Aromatic Hybrid Rice Pusa 60 Delivers Big Yields in Just 120 Days
A new high-yielding, aromatic rice hybrid developed by scientists at the ICAR–Indian Agricultural Research Institute (ICAR-IARI) in New Delhi has...
SpoVG Emerges as a Master Switch Controlling Listeria Biofilms and Survival
The foodborne pathogen Listeria monocytogenes has long been prized by microbiologists for its remarkable versatility: it survives refrigeration, persists on...