Saline-alkali soils are quietly swallowing the world's farmland, and a team of plant geneticists in China has unveiled a new...

Ethiopia grows far more grain than its population needs for a healthy diet, yet produces only a fraction of the...

Rice feeds more than half of humanity, and the shape, size, and colour of its grains sit at the heart...

Wheat feeds billions of people, but the hidden half of the plant—the root system that anchors it and draws water...

Willow trees have quietly shaped human medicine for millennia, from ancient brews of willow bark to the synthesis of aspirin,...

Rice blast, the fungal disease long regarded as the single most destructive threat to the world's most important staple crop,...

Salt is quietly strangling wheat fields across the world, and a team of Turkish researchers has now peered deep inside...

Every year, the world's rice mills produce roughly 150 million tonnes of rice husk, an abundant agricultural byproduct that is...

Rice, the staple crop that feeds more than half of humanity, has a persistent and well-documented problem: it accumulates arsenic...

In the water-stressed farmlands of Tamil Nadu, India, coconut farmers who irrigate their groves with treated industrial effluent are quietly...