Agriculture
Turkish commercial wheat varieties reveal metabolic responses to salt stress
Salt is quietly strangling wheat fields across the world, and a team of Turkish researchers has now peered deep inside...
Silicon’s complex effects on arsenic in rice shaped by terrain and soil
Rice, the staple crop that feeds more than half of humanity, has a persistent and well-documented problem: it accumulates arsenic...
Soybean gene GmHMGR6 improves salt tolerance via nitrogen metabolism control
Salt stress is one of the most damaging abiotic constraints facing global agriculture, rendering millions of hectares of cropland unproductive...
Machine Learning Traces Gastrodia elata Origins Using Elemental-Functional Fingerprints
Artificial intelligence can now tell where a humble medicinal root came from, and the technique is exposing just how much...
Multi-sensor fusion and SAC-DWA enable dynamic obstacle avoidance for farm machinery
Researchers in China have developed and field-tested an intelligent obstacle avoidance system that allows large agricultural machinery, such as tractors,...
DAPR-AM-Net: explainable AI detects and forecasts tomato leaf diseases
Tomato growers may soon have a diagnostician in their pocket that rivals the experts, after researchers unveiled an artificial intelligence...
Gamma irradiation alters regeneration and oxidative stress in two Begonia rex cultivars
In a finding that could reshape how ornamental plant breeders harness radiation to create novel varieties, researchers in Iran have...
Deep learning combines multiple strategies to predict crop yields
Deep learning models that can forecast crop harvests using only a handful of climate and soil measurements have delivered some...
How two cacao genotypes respond to cadmium at molecular and physiological levels
Cadmium is one of the most troubling contaminants in the global food supply, and chocolate has become one of its...
Genomic prediction models tested for timothy grass across Norwegian environments
Timothy grass, the backbone of Northern European livestock farming, has long resisted the genetic revolution that has transformed breeding in...
Simple buffered chromatin purification enables high-yield plant proteomics and epigenomics
For decades, one of the most stubborn obstacles in plant molecular biology has not been a lack of ideas or...
Vision foundation model enables accurate plant height estimation in fields
Plant height sounds like the simplest measurement in agriculture—walk into a field with a ruler and check. But anyone who...
Transformer-based pipeline enables scalable phenotyping of rice root aerenchyma
Rice feeds more than half of humanity, but its flooded paddies come with a hidden atmospheric cost: waterlogged soils trap...
Genetic and morphological diversity revealed in Mediterranean fig genotypes
In the transitional hills where the Mediterranean climate of Türkiye’s southern coast gradually yields to the harsher continental conditions of...
Internet of Things Transforms Modern Agriculture into Smart Farming
Researchers have unveiled a comprehensive new blueprint for the future of agriculture, introducing a concept called the Farming of Things...
Eggplant genetics and biotechnology advance crops for food security
Eggplant, one of the world’s most beloved vegetables and a staple of cuisines from South Asia to the Mediterranean, is...
Women’s role in adopting climate-smart farming technologies in the Sahel
In the peri-urban farming communities that ring Niamey, the capital of Niger, climate change is not an abstract future threat...
Forty-five years studying plant silicon and phytoliths: a personal retrospective
When Martin J. Hodson walked through the door of Dafydd Wynn Parry’s office at Bangor University in Wales on 20...
GWAS and genomic prediction reveal genes controlling tomato fruit weight
In the race to feed a warming planet, scientists have long sought to decode the genetic instructions that make some...
Study finds HmaERF87 boosts hydrangea resistance to leaf spot disease
In a discovery that could reshape how gardeners and breeders protect one of the world’s most beloved flowering shrubs, researchers...