Agriculture

The radish, one of Asia's most economically important root vegetables, faces a persistent agricultural challenge: premature bolting and flowering, which...

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...

In a discovery that could reshape how one of the world's most treasured medicinal orchids is propagated and conserved, researchers...

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

In the rugged karst landscapes of Southwest China, where limestone and dolomite bedrock jut through thin soils and fissures slice...

In the highlands of Oaxaca, Mexico, farmers have grown a remarkable variety of maize for generations. Unlike the corn cultivated...

In a finding that could reshape how scientists fight one of agriculture's most elusive classes of pathogens, researchers in Japan...