Recent research findings could be used to help develop new treatments to promote crop growth and tackle disease

Plant diseases and pests cause considerable crop losses and threaten global food security

Scientists are studying alternative tools for weed management. One such tool is propane-fueled flame weeding

Weed more than nuisance for soybean

Discovery of a gene that helps rice plants grow in salty soil paves the way to developing salt-tolerant crops

These are not pumpkins the size of what you might use for Halloween

Myriad benefits include 90 percent suppression of pests, severely limited spraying and damage to crops

Discovery of a single gene, LGF1, that controls the surface properties of rice

Edamame is notoriously difficult to get started

By employing algorithms and digital imaging, Brazilian researchers design a non-invasive system which performs the tricky task of identifying different stages of fruit ripening with an accuracy rate of 95 percent