ST. LOUIS, MO, June 6, 2023 – In collaboration with researchers at Purdue and Hamline Universities, Ivan Baxter, PhD, member, at the Donald ...
Awash in a rowed sea of its brethren, a corn leaf relegated to the lowest rung of its stem spends ...
The world is getting hotter, causing shifts in seasonal patterns and increasing the amount of extreme weather such as severe ...
Despite years of effort and advances in understanding how salinity tolerance works in plants, very few salt-tolerant crops have been ...
Comparing individual cells across corn, sorghum, and millet reveals evolutionary differences among these important cereal crops, according to a new ...
URBANA, Ill. – As Corn Belt states seek ways to curb nitrogen flow from farms into the Gulf of Mexico, ...
Over the past few decades, it has become obvious that climate change, and consequent extreme weather events, can wreak havoc ...
Anthocyanins are compounds related to the color of plants. They also have beneficial effects on human health and are used ...
New research in the field of plant sciences has made significant advances towards understanding the underlying reasons behind why certain ...
“There’s no doubt we can produce enough food for the world’s population - humanity is strategic enough to achieve that. The question ...
Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers have identified specific proteins and amino acids that could control bioenergy plants’ ability to identify ...
Chinese scientists have identified a key gene involved in crop alkaline tolerance that may greatly improve crop yield in sodic ...
"Have you ever wondered about life on a leaf?" Credit: L. Brian Stauffer "Have you ever wondered about life on ...
A strong root system allows crops to absorb water and nutrients from the soil, but scientists have little information about ...
ITHACA, N.Y. – Growing commercial crops on solar farms can both increase commercial food production and improve solar panel performance ...
Rob Myers, director of MU’s Center for Regenerative Agriculture, is leading a new $10 million grant project from the National ...
A review of gene editing techniques suggests that the CRISPR/Cas (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats/Cas) method could be a ...
St. Louis, MO, February 7, 2023 — Cassava is one of the most important crops in the tropics, feeding half a ...
UK newspapers generally report on meat substitutes positively—but high processing of some meat and dairy alternatives, high environmental footprint of ...
There are often too few flowering plants in agricultural landscapes, which is one reason for the decline of pollinating insects. ...
