Agriculture

A new review synthesizes decades of chemical ecology research showing that the sweet potato weevil's sex pheromone and plant volatiles...

A comprehensive review finds that industrial byproduct gypsum, elemental sulfur, and designer biochar can restore disrupted sulfur and organic matter...

For generations, farmers have walked their fields in the first weeks of the growing season, stooping to count seedlings row...

Twenty maize genotypes. Five unforgiving environments. One deceptively simple question: can tropical maize be trusted to deliver consistently nutritious animal...

When two of the world's most widely trusted crop simulation engines were asked the same question about feeding sub-Saharan Africa,...

In the flooded fields that feed half of humanity, an unexpected subterranean drama is coming into focus. Climate warming, long...

For decades, cotton breeders transformed a tropical, sun-calibrated plant into a crop that flowers on schedule anywhere on Earth —...

When floodwater swallows a rice paddy or a maize field, the crop does not die of drowning in any ordinary...

An ethanol extract of green sea lettuce (Ulva lactuca) can simultaneously tint, fortify, and enrich sugar-based confections, but only within...

Tea and coffee are among the most beloved beverages on the planet, poured into billions of cups every single day....