1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (55+ words) As heat waves grow longer and more punishing across the world’s tomato-growing regions, scientists have been racing to understand how this beloved crop copes when temperatures climb past the point of comfort. Now, a team of researchers at Yunnan Agricultural…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (69+ words) A devastating bacterial pathogen that travels inside the bodies of tiny psyllid insects has long puzzled plant scientists: two closely related strains can infect the same tomato plant, yet one leaves it stunted while the other kills it outright. A…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (651+ words) Rice feeds more than half of humanity, yet the crop faces a future in which heat waves and drought increasingly arrive not as separate threats but as simultaneous ones....

1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (598+ words) Maize is one of the hungriest crops on the planet, demanding enormous quantities of nitrogen fertilizer to fill its kernels each season. Yet much of that nitrogen never reaches the grain. It leaks into rivers as nitrate, escapes into the…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (69+ words) Transgenic technology has quietly reshaped agriculture across the world since the mid-1990s, moving desirable genes into crop plants across the barriers of sexual compatibility and, in doing so, accelerating the development of new cultivars beyond what conventional breeding alone can achieve....

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (615+ words) Drought is one of the most punishing stresses a plant can face, and few crops feel that pressure more acutely than basil, a medicinal and aromatic herb whose essential oils, pigments, and delicate foliage depend on a steady water supply....

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (102+ words) Butter cookies may be about to get a structural makeover that could reshape how the baking industry thinks about healthier fats. A new study published in Current Research in Food Science shows that a bigel built from phytosterols, gamma-oryzanol and…...