Agriculture

In the flooded fields that feed half of humanity, an unexpected subterranean drama is coming into focus. Climate warming, long...

For decades, cotton breeders transformed a tropical, sun-calibrated plant into a crop that flowers on schedule anywhere on Earth —...

When floodwater swallows a rice paddy or a maize field, the crop does not die of drowning in any ordinary...

An ethanol extract of green sea lettuce (Ulva lactuca) can simultaneously tint, fortify, and enrich sugar-based confections, but only within...

Tea and coffee are among the most beloved beverages on the planet, poured into billions of cups every single day....

Every night, as sunlight fades and photosynthesis grinds to a halt, plants quietly reconfigure their metabolic machinery, shifting resources toward...

Deep inside every bowl of miso soup, wedge of aged cheese, and simmering pot of bone broth lies a molecular...

By 2050 the world will need to feed 9.7 billion people, rising to 10.9 billion by the end of the...

From Glass Jar to Open Water: The First Complete Lab Recipe for Rescuing Poland's Critically Endangered Pondweed In the quiet...

A genus-wide survey of chloroplast genomes in Asparagus, the plant group that includes the edible garden asparagus and numerous medicinal...