Agriculture

Field sampling near China's Hongge vanadium–titanium magnetite district shows that mining reshapes cropland soil chemistry and reorganizes bacterial and fungal...

Researchers have identified the rice transcription factor OsbHLH6 as a negative regulator that represses the cold-resilience gene OsMADS57 and disrupts...

New research suggests that low-arousal, calming background music can nudge diners toward consuming more healthy food.

A water extract from discarded lily bulb cores improved growth, feed efficiency, meat quality, and gut health in yellow-feathered broilers,...

Chitosan-coated silver nanoparticles synthesized with Calotropis procera leaf extract fight tomato bacterial pathogens and prime plant defenses at low doses,...

A new study in northern Ethiopia shows that combining scientific field measurements with farmers' indigenous knowledge reveals how grazing exclusion...

A Tanzanian study shows that cheap water extracts made from market-discarded overripe papaya, banana, pineapple, and lemon significantly boost germination...

A new review in npj Science of Food explains how engineering food structure at multiple scales can boost saltiness perception...

A biochar-enhanced zinc fertilizer reduces cadmium accumulation in rice by boosting antioxidant defenses and photosynthetic carbonic anhydrase genes, according to...

A large-scale genetic study of 619 US hard winter wheat lines has identified known and novel susceptibility genes for septoria...