crop research

Researchers based in Spain investigate whether this pathogen can penetrate through the roots of strawberry plants and reach the fruit

Tepary bean genome may lead to sustainable alternatives for legume crops affected by changing climate

Insights into the microbiome may help researchers grow more resilient citrus plants that can handle both changing climates and stress from pathogens

This most damaging soybean pathogen was first found in the US in 1954 and most recent estimates show that it results in $1.5 billion in annual yield losses

"This discovery has implications for food security and breeding new crop lines that can better deal with a changing climate," researcher says

Bringing a technique that has been a boon to other plants to the budding cannabis industry

Researchers say plants' internal clock should be exploited in agriculture—a process they describe as "chronoculture"—to contribute to global food security

Researchers found that the El Niño climate cycle can be a reliable substitute for weather data

Scientists from China assembled a high-quality genome of Chinese hazelnut and were able to identify several genes of economic importance

Overuse of antibiotics in humans has led to several microbes developing antibiotic resistance; researchers explore if this is also true of antibiotics used on crops