In the same manner that nations collaborate to detect and stop human pandemics, a global surveillance system for crop diseases needs to be created to safeguard agricultural trade and food security, argues a team of experts in Science

The biennial effect makes it challenging for coffee breeders to compare yields from different varieties of coffee

The keys to growing hazelnut, hops, and mint

Study gains a better understanding, from the perspective of farmers, of the challenges and advantageous opportunities associated with using high tunnels for specialty crops

A sudden increase in heat led to changes in the structure of the rice plant's RNA, which was linked to a loss in the number of its messenger RNAs

The Soil Moisture Active Passive mission, or SMAP, launched in 2015 and has helped map the amount of water in soils worldwide

Scientists evaluate starch digestibility, nutrient availability

Farmers in China’s Loess Plateau have for decades used both plastic and straw as a soil cover, or mulch, between crops

Farmers are turning to new antibiotics, but it's widely acknowledged that it's only a matter of time before bacteria become resistant to any new chemical

Faba bean cover crop halves added nitrogen requirement