Achieving gains in agricultural production depends on adequate levels of soil micronutrients like copper, low levels of which can impact yield by reducing fertility and, in extreme cases, lead to total crop failure

Finding out more about the mechanisms behind complex traits like disease resistance has the potential to help plant breeders build the best traits into tomorrow's corn plant, says researcher

In the first six weeks, the supplement resulted in 700 grams of gains in lean body mass—the same amount of muscle the men involved in the study would normally have lost in a year

 A sensitive device for detecting a compound that can affect wine's fragrance

Bugs develop a taste for each other when plants taste bad

Last year, researchers harvested strawberries grown in low tunnels for 19 consecutive weeks from mid-July through the week of Thanksgiving

Microbiome from mother trees protects baby trees from disease

Scans suggest food is a form of escape from self-critical thoughts

Study is published in the July 7 issue of Science Magazine

World-first QUT research that has produced a golden-orange fleshed banana, rich in pro-vitamin A, has been published in the prestigious Plant Biotechnology Journal