Historically, the methods available for measuring phenological changes across ecosystems have been less than ideal

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

A new study involving Iowa State University researchers explores how a mutualistic, or mutually beneficial, relationship between birds and chili peppers in the Mariana Islands helps chili peppers grow in the wild

A recent experiment tests the usefulness of wetlands invaded by reed canarygrass as a feed source for cows

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

Annual forage crops offset losses from alfalfa winterkill

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

Products made from converted lignin could subsidize biofuel production, making the cost of biofuels more competitive with petroleum

Scienists combined different types of genetic association analyses to identify 14 genes across the genome that were involved in the synthesis of vitamin E

Scientistist have identified 1,398 transcription factors, proteins that regulate expression of certain genes in pineapple