Agriculture

A large-scale study of 123 lentil genotypes shows that phosphorus stress reorganizes root trait networks, allowing machine-learning models to pinpoint...

Researchers have built a reusable hydroponic system from 30-cent plastic pots that supports eight dicot plant species, full life cycles...

A survey of 395 wheat-farming households in Northwestern Ethiopia finds farmers sell just over half their harvest, with roads, irrigation,...

New research shows that culturing chick satellite cells at the physiological temperature of 40 degrees Celsius accelerates proliferation and yields...

A 295-million-year-old fossil from China bearing carpel-like organs with enclosed seeds and ovules challenges the long-held belief that flowering plants...

An analysis of more than 80,000 hand pollinations in groundnut shows that environmental conditions, not parental genetics, explain most of...

A single spray of fragmented self-DNA boosted the immune defenses and seed yield of common bean plants in both glasshouse...

Wheat feeds billions, and the shape of its spike, the flowering head that carries the grain, is one of the...

A new review argues that horse gram, a drought-tolerant legume rich in protein, minerals, and phytochemicals, is an overlooked candidate...

Every night, across farmlands in China and much of the world, light traps lure nocturnal insect pests toward glowing panels,...