Agriculture

Beneath the quiet canopy of cold-temperate poplar-birch forests in northern China, an invisible metabolic drama is unfolding. As secondary forests...

Saline-alkali soils are quietly swallowing the world's farmland, and a team of plant geneticists in China has unveiled a new...

Forage crops—the grasses and legumes that underpin the world's meat and dairy industries—have long been treated as a single, uniform...

Ethiopia grows far more grain than its population needs for a healthy diet, yet produces only a fraction of the...

Microplastics have quietly become one of the most pervasive contaminants in the modern food supply, and a new comprehensive review...

Rice feeds more than half of humanity, and the shape, size, and colour of its grains sit at the heart...

Wheat feeds billions of people, but the hidden half of the plant—the root system that anchors it and draws water...

Willow trees have quietly shaped human medicine for millennia, from ancient brews of willow bark to the synthesis of aspirin,...

Rice blast, the fungal disease long regarded as the single most destructive threat to the world's most important staple crop,...

Salt is quietly strangling wheat fields across the world, and a team of Turkish researchers has now peered deep inside...