Agriculture

High on the dry, sun-scorched slopes of the northwestern Himalayas grows one of the region’s most valuable and most vulnerable...

A striking tree with brilliant yellow flowers and capsules stuffed with silky floss is finally getting the seed science attention...

Rice is the staple food for more than half of humanity, yet the rainfed lowlands where much of it grows...

A bumper harvest is not always a safe harvest. That is the unsettling conclusion of a sweeping new review published...

Plant-based burgers, dairy-free cheeses, and meat analogues live or die by their texture, yet predicting how a new formulation will...

Australia’s stick insects have just become considerably more diverse, at least on paper. Researchers at the University of Sydney have...

For decades, extracellular vesicles were viewed as a signature of animal biology—tiny membrane-bound packages that cells release to shuttle proteins,...

Fish-derived collagen peptides have become one of the fastest-growing ingredients in the global functional food and beauty-from-within market, appearing in...

The deep purple blooms of Dendrobium nobile, one of the most prized ornamental orchids in traditional Chinese horticulture, owe their...

One of the most widely used green tools in modern agriculture may be losing its power in a way few...

In a country better known for its mountains than its fish farms, a team of Afghan researchers has delivered the...

In the sprawling sugarcane fields of the Brazilian Cerrado, the difference between an accurate harvest forecast and a costly miscalculation...

Sea cucumbers are among the most prized delicacies in East Asian cuisine, valued not only for their distinctive texture but...

Maize is the third most important cereal crop in Pakistan, trailing only wheat and rice in both production and cultivated...

Leaf rust, driven by the fungal pathogen Puccinia hordei, is one of the most geographically widespread diseases of barley and...

Fresh beef sold online often travels a surprisingly rough road. In the booming world of e-commerce, steaks are typically shipped...

A sweeping new review argues that a technology capable of reading a soil’s chemistry from the way it reflects light...

A new genetic study from India has revealed how resistance to one of groundnut’s most destructive diseases is passed from...

Every year, the global pumpkin industry discards mountains of peels, seeds, pomace and rind—roughly a quarter to a third of...

The Salk Institute for Biological Studies has received an $18 million grant from the Bezos Earth Fund to carry its...