Agriculture

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...

The glass of orange juice on the breakfast table may look the same whether it has been flash-pasteurized at high...

In a finding that is sending ripples through the plant science community, researchers have created the first mutants defective in...

Every year, the European Union discards more than 58 million tonnes of food, and a significant share of that mountain...

Scientists have unveiled a new artificial intelligence framework that dramatically improves a robot's ability to find and trace the slender...

In a development that promises to reshape how plant scientists assess one of the world's most important cereal crops, researchers...

Researchers in China have identified two chitinase genes that act as central guardians of walnut leaves against a destructive fungal...

Artificial intelligence is often celebrated for its ability to predict things: yields, droughts, outbreaks, prices. But a sweeping new systematic...

In the quiet interior of a soybean root nodule, a bacterium has been quietly assembling a chemical arsenal against one...