Researchers have upended the traditional understanding of the hormonal cascade that leads to release of an egg from the ovaries

Researchers report that artificial selection by crop breeders has constricted the pool of possibilities for North American corn varieties

Millions of years ago, one family of plants—the beets and their near and distant cousins—hit upon a brand new red pigment and discarded the red used by the rest of the plant world

Researcher looks at how the 20 amino acids—which are the building blocks of protein, the main source of nitrogen in dairy cow rations—contribute to milk protein production

Researchers found that, “despite large environmental change and management efforts over recent decades, water quality of lakes in the Midwest and Northeast U.S. has not overwhelmingly degraded or improved”

According to a Wisconsin team’s survey of the literature, only two field studies since 1950 have looked at any aspect of the health and ecological well-being of wild bird populations in the United States

Genomes2Fields aims to improve the nation’s corn crop by uncovering how genomes—the blueprints for plants—are turned into yield, stress resistance, and all manner of different traits

Bugs develop a taste for each other when plants taste bad

Researchers from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University at Buffalo have overcome two key challenges to making optoelectronic devices smaller

Why this plant family has a unique way to make such an important chemical building block is a mystery that extends back to the 1960s

In their recent study, published in the Journal of Virology, the University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers examined 35 years worth of invited speaker rosters from four prominent virology meetings

Discovery may help plant breeders and engineers get more from food and energy crops

Wastewater from our sinks, toilets, showers, and washing machines can be turned into valuable products with the help of scientists and unique bacteria

The magic key for turning all three components—cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin—of lignocellulosic (non-edible) biomass into distinct high-value products is gamma valerolactone

The discovery helps round out the picture of a creature that scientists now know shared the landscape with modern humans—and probably other hominin species—between 226,000 and 335,000 years ago