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Soybean farmers have long battled Phytophthora root rot, a devastating oomycete disease that destroys crops worldwide, but a new breakthrough...

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Something strange is happening in the way humanity talks about its greatest crisis. While greenhouse gases accumulate in the atmosphere...

Maize feeds the world. It is the backbone of global food, feed and industrial systems, and its cultivation has expanded...

The world's farmers apply staggering quantities of fertilizer to their fields every growing season, yet a large share of those...

Researchers in Kerala, India, show that leaf temperature and the Crop Water Stress Index measured by infrared thermometry can reliably...

When drought strikes, plants face an immediate dilemma: keep their leaf pores open to absorb carbon dioxide for photosynthesis, or...