3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (828+ words) Hybridization is the engine of modern crop improvement, yet for one of the world’s most important legume crops it remains a stubbornly inefficient process. Groundnut, or peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.), is self-pollinating, possesses delicate aerial flowers that wither within hours,…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago   (57+ words) In the dim, crowded interior of a commercial turkey barn, one bird looks much like another. Thousands of large, white-feathered animals mill about under fixed overhead cameras, and to the human eye—and, crucially, to most computer vision systems—they…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago   (95+ words) Every spring, apple growers across China hold their breath as blossoms open on trees that represent more than 40 percent of the world’s apple cultivation and production. When a late-spring frost sweeps through the orchards during flowering, the damage can be…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago   (55+ words) A small piece of paper that changes color as fish and shrimp decay, read by an artificial intelligence that is right more than 98 percent of the time, could soon change how consumers and retailers know when seafood is safe to…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (73+ words) In an era when three staple crops—maize, wheat, and rice—feed more than four billion people, scientists are turning their attention to forgotten plants that could reshape the future of food. A comprehensive new review published in BMC Agriculture…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago   (82+ words) A sweeping analysis of India’s plant variety protection records has revealed a remarkable story of grassroots innovation: individual farmers, not corporations or government research institutions, are the country’s most prolific registrants of new plant varieties. Researchers from the Indian Council…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (837+ words) borer Bioengineer.org...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (800+ words) Bread scientists in Belgium have uncovered new evidence that the secret to a perfectly airy loaf may lie less in how much gas yeast produces and more in which yeast is doing the producing....

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (560+ words) A pair of prairie plants with roots deep enough to reach several meters into the soil has moved closer to becoming a new generation of climate-resilient crops....