Promising solution to runoff issues ahead

New study sheds light on beer flavor debate

While low levels of salt can improve the flavor of wine, in excess it can lead to unpalatable tastes, reduce fruit yield and damage the long-term health of grapevines

A recently-published paper shows a gene found in a model plant called Arabidopsis could confer improved disease resistance in soybeans

Tiny grains, thousands of years old, tell story of prehistoric food globalization

With the help of a new imaging machine developed at the University of Illinois breeders can learn the number of kernels per ear, plus a lot more information than can be manually observed

Vitamin A deficiency is a common problem in Africa and Southeast Asia, causing an estimated 250,000 to 500,000 children to become permanently blind each year

Technological breakthrough will help decode massive bread wheat genome, accelerate wheat breeding

The research group manipulated the plant isoprenoid pathway through the utilization of a variant of 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-coenzyme A synthase

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