Agriculture

Rice may be getting a powerful nutritional upgrade. A new meta-analysis published in npj Sustainable Agriculture reports that combining genetic...

Brazilian aquaculture has revealed an unexpected bacterial threat that could reshape disease management in one of the world’s fastest-growing food...

Nitrogen fertilizer has helped transform modern agriculture, but its success comes with a costly paradox: crops often receive more nitrogen...

Timber harvesting may leave a forest standing while quietly damaging the plants needed to keep it alive. A new study...

A plate of food may look like a personal choice, but multiplied across millions of households, it becomes a force...

New York University researchers have identified a molecular switch that tells plants when they have absorbed enough nitrogen, a discovery...

Barragán Fonseca, K.Y., Mertens, D., Beschoren da Costa, P. et al. By-products of insect farming as a novel sustainable biofertilizer...

It is a mystery that has puzzled scientists for years. How can the world’s only winged mammals carry viruses that cause severe disease while rarely becoming...

Artificial intelligence could reshape how farms manage nitrogen by treating the nitrogen cycle as a single, connected system that links...

Scientists have identified a genetic switch that determines whether avocado trees flower as A-type or B-type—an advance that could compress...