Agriculture

A bean’s appearance may be telling scientists more about its nutritional value than anyone expected. In a three-year study spanning...

A tiny protein found in barley roots may give plants an unexpected way to survive low temperatures: keeping RNA from...

Smells can do more than make food seem appealing or unpleasant: they can steer an animal’s behavior before it has...

Plant diseases are moving faster, spreading farther and becoming harder to identify, creating an escalating threat to global food security....

Scientists have developed a hydroponic platform that makes it possible to watch and measure a part of grass biology that...

A simple spray of vitamin C may help rose growers harvest more flowers and produce a richer, chemically more complex...

Controlled-environment agriculture may be entering a new phase in which greenhouses do more than measure their surroundings: they continuously interpret...

El Niño may be entering a more volatile era. A millennium-long reconstruction built from Galápagos corals indicates that variability in...

Maize breeders in Nepal have identified a set of genetically distinct inbred lines that could help produce higher-yielding hybrid varieties,...

A Three-Part Disease-Fighting Strategy Could Dramatically Increase Ghana’s Mango Yields A new study from southern Ghana suggests that mango farmers...