Agriculture

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...

Rice, the staple crop that feeds more than half of humanity, has a persistent and well-documented problem: it accumulates arsenic...

Salt stress is one of the most damaging abiotic constraints facing global agriculture, rendering millions of hectares of cropland unproductive...

Artificial intelligence can now tell where a humble medicinal root came from, and the technique is exposing just how much...

Researchers in China have developed and field-tested an intelligent obstacle avoidance system that allows large agricultural machinery, such as tractors,...

Tomato growers may soon have a diagnostician in their pocket that rivals the experts, after researchers unveiled an artificial intelligence...

In a finding that could reshape how ornamental plant breeders harness radiation to create novel varieties, researchers in Iran have...

Deep learning models that can forecast crop harvests using only a handful of climate and soil measurements have delivered some...

Cadmium is one of the most troubling contaminants in the global food supply, and chocolate has become one of its...