The wild relatives of rice have long been treated as a genetic reserve — a pool of untapped traits that...

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Indonesia produces more palm oil than any other country on Earth, and nowhere are the tensions created by that dominance...

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The Secret Lives of Local Aloes: Ethiopian Study Reveals That Where a Medicinal Plant Grows Shapes Its Healing Power Aloe...

Brazil's Farm Credit Boom Is Redrawing the Nation's Economic Map — and Its Poorest Regions Are Being Left Behind Every...

Deep inside a pile of fermenting paddy straw in southern India, a heat-loving fungus has been quietly demonstrating a solution...

Rice grown in naturally selenium-rich soils may carry an unexpected health dilemma: the same geological conditions that enrich the grain...

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Essential oils from two native plants of northern Peru strongly inhibited Botrytis cinerea in laboratory tests, highlighting candidates for future...