A vast new genetic resource created by a team led by Doreen Ware, PhD, of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, will accelerate efforts to develop new rice varieties

WVU scientists are working to combat a critical issue concerning piercing-sucking pests that serve as carriers of plant diseases

Unique genetics of wild Australian rice may help boost food security

New 'Buck' naked barley: food, feed, brew

Researchers have figured out how the fungus is outsmarting corn, and they may be able to use this information to help corn fight back

The work was performed in Setaria viridis, an emerging model system for grasses that is closely related to economically important cereal crops and bioenergy feed stocks

Pioneering new technology set to accelerate the global quest for crop improvement

Corn was first domesticated roughly 10,000 years ago in central Mexico by selecting desirable traits of teosinte, a species of wild grass

A research team has gained new insights into how the potato was domesticated and how its DNA evolved over time

Research team investigated and compared the genomes of K. fedtschenkoi, Phalaenopsis equestris (orchid), and Ananas comosus (pineapple) using ORNL’s Titan supercomputer