A three-generation field experiment has found that barley exposed to cold stress in its ancestry can produce descendants that germinate...

Japan’s fruit farms may need to make a radical change to survive climate change: stop growing the fruits they are...

A tiny protein found in barley roots may give plants an unexpected way to survive low temperatures: keeping RNA from...

Plant diseases are moving faster, spreading farther and becoming harder to identify, creating an escalating threat to global food security....

Scientists have developed a hydroponic platform that makes it possible to watch and measure a part of grass biology that...

A simple spray of vitamin C may help rose growers harvest more flowers and produce a richer, chemically more complex...

El Niño may be entering a more volatile era. A millennium-long reconstruction built from Galápagos corals indicates that variability in...

Maize breeders in Nepal have identified a set of genetically distinct inbred lines that could help produce higher-yielding hybrid varieties,...

A Three-Part Disease-Fighting Strategy Could Dramatically Increase Ghana’s Mango Yields A new study from southern Ghana suggests that mango farmers...

As climate change pushes agriculture toward harsher conditions, plants that thrive where most crops fail are attracting renewed scientific attention....