Knowing when and how climate change will impact crop production is essential for devising adaptation...
Outputs of maize and groundnut – two key crops for West African food security –...
Soils are teeming with bacteria whose effects we are just beginning to understand. One of...
Meeting consumer preferences for safe, nutritious and locally-produced food are among the key challenges that...
Researchers led by Lixin Wang, assistant professor of earth sciences in the School of Science...
Breeding barley that provides good yields even in a hot and dry climate – a...
Researchers and scientists from 10 Asian countries increased their understanding of the interaction between climate...
Many scientists fear that global warming will hit staple food crops hard, with heat stress,...
A milestone has been reached in the research of zinc loading in crop seeds with...
New simulations by researchers at the University of Warwick and UCL’s Institute of Archaeology of...
Purdue University researchers are developing a technology that could enable specific plants and crops to...
Like most annuals, lettuce plants live out their lives in quiet, three-act dramas that follow...
Plants speed up their respiratory metabolism as temperatures rise, leading to a long-held concern that...
Scientists battling to increase wheat production by more than 60 percent over the next 35...
Monsanto Company today released its 2015 Sustainability Report. Since announcing some initial sustainability commitments in...
A pioneering analysis of selected varieties of Ethiopian durum wheat has revealed a fresh source...
Texas A&M AgriLife Research scientists will soon be looking deep beneath agricultural row crops to...
Nicholas G. Smith1, Sergey L. Malyshev2, Elena Shevliakova2, Jens Kattge3,4 and Jeffrey S. Dukes1,5 Affiliations:...
Scientists at Aarhus University in Denmark discover that fungi associated with plant roots may improve...
A University of California, Riverside assistant professor and a team of researchers are using an...
As agriculture and farmers around the world work to mitigate and adapt to the complex...
Monsanto and Novozymes announce a new 2025 acreage target that will guide the companies’ microbials...
On Oct. 22, the 2015 Planet in Focus film festival honoured Stars/Broken Social Scene musician...
Researchers at the University of Missouri find that two alpine bumblebee species have responded to...
Farmers in climates where late-season drought occurs frequently may be able to increase wheat yield,...
A new imaging tool from a team led by California’s Carnegie Institution for Science allows...
A rapidly evolving sector of the industry, seed treatments have undergone continuous improvements since their...
A study by the University of Liverpool finds that the genetic diversity of wild plant...
Even with the recent rains, vegetable producers in Southwest Texas know it’s just a matter...
A Kansas State University biochemistry professor has reached a milestone in building a better biofuel:...
New research shows that genetically altering the amounts of a naturally occurring sugar can substantially...
Mycogen Seeds helps growers in the western Corn Belt manage multiple environmental variables with a...
Scientists are figuring out how plants respond to drought stress, and their research could provide...
Market introductions look to combat resistance issues. Will 2015 be the year that retailers and...
