Agriculture
Gene Behind Chalky Rice Mutant Unlocks High-Resistant-Starch Breeding
Rice feeds more than half of the world’s population, but for people living with type 2 diabetes, ordinary polished rice...
Scientists Crack the Genetic Transformation Barrier in Tartary Buckwheat
Tartary buckwheat has long been prized as a functional food, packed with bioactive compounds such as rutin and other flavonoids...
Deep-Learning Framework Crop-GPA 2.0 Cracks the Shared Genetic Code of Crop Traits Across Species
Every improvement in a crop, whether it is a heavier ear of wheat, a more disease-resistant rice plant, or a...
Micronutrients shape plant root defense through microbiomes and pathogen evasion
Micronutrients such as iron, zinc, copper, manganese and boron have long been treated by agricultural science as little more than...
Multi-stage growth-aware maize yield prediction using graph neural networks
Maize is the most widely grown cereal on Earth, and predicting how much grain a field will produce before harvest...
Cotton gene GhMYB102 fights Verticillium wilt by boosting lignin production
In the continuing battle between crops and the pathogens that besiege them, one of the most economically punishing confrontations takes...
Fat depot differences in lipids and genes of Shanxia black pigs
Pork fat has long been treated as a single, undifferentiated commodity in both agricultural science and the kitchen, but a...
AR glasses enable real-time ripeness detection for cherry tomato harvesting
From SciENMAG Science News Desk — Agricultural AI Seeing Ripeness Through Smart Glasses: Lightweight AI Brings Real-Time Harvest Decisions to...
Training-free method enables cross-species segmentation of plant CT scans
In a development that could reshape how plant scientists peer inside crops, a research team led by Weizhen Liu of...
Trait-based dissection of drought adaptation for stable cowpea yields
Cowpea, one of the most important grain legumes grown across the dry savannas of sub-Saharan Africa, has long been at...
3D imaging techniques reveal hidden damage in soybean seeds
Scientists in Brazil have demonstrated that a combination of three non-destructive imaging techniques, visible-spectrum (RGB) photography, X-ray radiography, and three-dimensional...
Review Highlights Key Strategies for Managing Saline Soils
Salt is quietly swallowing the world’s farmland, and a sweeping new review argues that the fight against it will decide...
Green-synthesised silver and gold nanoparticles alter broccoli germination and biochemistry
In a development that could reshape how farmers think about seed treatments, researchers in India have shown that a single...
Simple Equations Map How Much Water Punjab Soils Can Hold
A handful of soil can tell a remarkable story. Squeeze it, weigh it, dry it in an oven, and the...
Inside the Silent War Over Plant Sap: How Aphids Outsmart Crop Defenses
Aphids are among the most economically destructive agricultural pests on the planet, and a sweeping new review published in BMC...
Infrared Camera Reads Moisture in Meat Batter in Just 20 Seconds
Every year, sausage and processed meat producers quietly lose staggering sums of money to a problem most consumers never see:...
Nepal’s 395-Plant Pharmacopoeia for Women’s Reproductive Health, Mapped
In a sweeping systematic review that reads like a botanical map of Himalayan women’s health, researchers have catalogued 395 plant...
Machine Learning Reveals How Lentil Roots Rethink Phosphorus Scarcity
Phosphorus is the quiet bottleneck of global agriculture. Locked tightly into soils and mined from finite rock reserves, the nutrient...
30-Cent Pots, Full Plant Life Cycles: A Hydroponic System Any Lab Can Afford
Hydroponics has long been one of plant science’s most valuable workhorses. Growing plants with their roots suspended in carefully formulated...
Ancient Fossil Carpel-Like Organs Push Back Flowering Plant Origins
The story of when flowering plants first appeared on Earth may have just been rewritten. A team of palaeobotanists led...