Agriculture

Plant breeders have gained a new way to see genetic variation that standard DNA markers can miss. An international research...

Tree peony seeds may be hiding a powerful molecular switch for controlling oil production. In a study published in Plant...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, has become a global health crisis—and a new review suggests that compounds found in...

Wheat plants deprived of nitrogen do not simply shrink or produce less valuable grain. In some varieties, they appear to...

Mangrove forests are often portrayed as unstoppable carbon factories: fast-growing trees rooted in tidal mud, capturing atmospheric carbon dioxide and...

Chinese cabbage may have found a new way to remain green long after its leaves would normally begin to yellow....

A previously overlooked genetic network may help explain why tobacco plants rapidly produce side shoots after their main growing tip...

Ghent, 26 August 2026 — Plants cannot escape a heat wave, retreat into shade or move toward a cooler environment....

A new metagenomic study from the northeastern Qinghai–Tibet Plateau has revealed that the identity of grazing livestock may help shape...

Crop wild relatives may hold the genetic tools needed to help agriculture withstand drought, heat, salinity, emerging diseases and increasingly...