Agriculture

Insomnia has become one of the most pervasive health complaints of modern life, and the clinical arsenal for treating it...

The radish, one of Asia’s most economically important root vegetables, faces a persistent agricultural challenge: premature bolting and flowering, which...

In the sprawling medicinal herb plantations of Bozhou, in China’s Anhui Province, a quiet technological revolution is taking root. Researchers...

Every process that keeps a plant alive—from the immune responses that fend off pathogens to the signaling cascades that help...

A devastating fungal disease that can wipe out wheat harvests and poison the grain we eat has met a formidable...

Every year, plant diseases destroy a staggering share of the world’s crops, and the farmers who suffer most are precisely...

In a discovery that could reshape how one of the world’s most treasured medicinal orchids is propagated and conserved, researchers...

Ghana’s cocoa farmers, the backbone of an industry that anchors the West African nation’s economy, are far less ready for...

In the rugged karst landscapes of Southwest China, where limestone and dolomite bedrock jut through thin soils and fissures slice...

In the highlands of Oaxaca, Mexico, farmers have grown a remarkable variety of maize for generations. Unlike the corn cultivated...

In a finding that could reshape how scientists fight one of agriculture’s most elusive classes of pathogens, researchers in Japan...

The glass of orange juice on the breakfast table may look the same whether it has been flash-pasteurized at high...

In a finding that is sending ripples through the plant science community, researchers have created the first mutants defective in...

Every year, the European Union discards more than 58 million tonnes of food, and a significant share of that mountain...

Scientists have unveiled a new artificial intelligence framework that dramatically improves a robot’s ability to find and trace the slender...

Researchers in China have identified two chitinase genes that act as central guardians of walnut leaves against a destructive fungal...

In a development that promises to reshape how plant scientists assess one of the world’s most important cereal crops, researchers...

Artificial intelligence is often celebrated for its ability to predict things: yields, droughts, outbreaks, prices. But a sweeping new systematic...

In the quiet interior of a soybean root nodule, a bacterium has been quietly assembling a chemical arsenal against one...

A quiet revolution is taking root along Ireland’s riverbanks, and it is being written in DNA. Common alder, Alnus glutinosa,...