Crop breeding for higher yields may be unintentionally reducing the beneficial microorganisms that help plants absorb ...

Few are more invested in our land and food than America’s corn farmers. Yet agriculture is often unfairly criticized, oversimplifying the practices that made the U.S. the world’s most productive and ...

Crops utilize carbon dioxide (CO 2) through photosynthesis to create organic matter, with enhanced photosynthetic rates crucial for meeting global food demands. While crop phenomics has focused on ...

The use of haploid induction in crop breeding offers a transformative approach to accelerating the development of new, highly uniform cultivars. By generating plants with a single set of chromosomes ...

This phrase ‘biologicals’ described as an input for cultivating crops initially confused me. After all, isn’t crop production by its very nature a biological process? Plants basically need water, ...

There are currently not enough agronomists and agricultural engineers in the agro-industrial complex, representatives of the ...

Scientists created a highly accurate reference genome for one of the most important modern crops and found a rare example of how genes confer disease resistance in plants. Exploring sugarcane's ...

Kenyan scientists have warned that the country risks falling behind its neighbours in adopting modern crop biotechnology. Dr Richard Oduor, chair of the Kenya University Biotechnology Consortium ...

Florida, the United States’s biggest producer of oranges, has been hit very hard by a bacterial issue known as citrus greening disease, also called Huanglongbing. As a result, orange production has ...

Local farms are fully prepared for the new agricultural season, with the Ministry of Municipality projecting a 5 10% increase ...