Plant breeders may be able to test far more crop varieties without sacrificing the accuracy of genomic predictions, according to...

Barley Plants May “Remember” Cold—And Pass the Advantage to Future Generations A three-generation field experiment has found that barley exposed...

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

Cold-Induced Barley Protein Helps Plants Keep RNA Unwound in the Deep Cold A tiny protein found in barley roots may...

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...