Agriculture

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...

Salt stress is rapidly eroding crop productivity worldwide, and medicinal plants are not spared. For Salvia miltiorrhiza, salinization threatens both...

Plants build organs by coordinating “initiation” and “growth,” but how one signal can drive two opposite outcomes has been unclear....

ITHACA, N.Y. — Cornell University researchers have introduced BINN (Biogeochemistry-Informed Neural Network), an AI model designed to speed up and...

A new genomic study from the Ineos Oxford Institute for antimicrobial research and the University of Oxford argues that industrial...