When Martin J. Hodson walked through the door of Dafydd Wynn Parry's office at Bangor University in Wales on 20...

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...

Micoplastics may be invisible to the naked eye, but their effects on the smallest inhabitants of the soil are proving...

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

Every year, global agriculture generates hundreds of millions of tonnes of wheat straw, a fibrous residue that is often burned...

Scientists have engineered a reusable enzyme-biochar composite that can dismantle one of the world's most widely used insecticides with remarkable...

In the vast, water-scarce landscapes of Central Asia, a deficit of rainfall does not stay a deficit of rainfall for...