Genetic analyses and interviews with Indigenous farmers revealed that most manioc crops resemble each other across time and ...

Plants have been using solar energy for millions of years, but advances in machine learning and protein engineering could ...

This study summarizes the current research status of the impacts of crop domestication and improvement on root ...

An international team of scientists from Australia and China has unveiled the first chromosome-scale genome of a wild barley ...

Overuse of chemical pesticides has driven resistance in agricultural pests, including the adaptable two-spotted spider mite.

Without plants on land, humans could not live on Earth. From mosses to ferns to grasses to trees, plants are our food, fodder and timber. All this diversity emerged from an algal ancestor that ...

Pollinators are animals that help to transport pollen from one location to another in the plant reproduction process.

About 75% of the world's food comes from 12 plants. Scientists estimate up to 30,000 species are edible. Not only does this ...

Those are all warm season crops — or as we call them in Kentucky — post-Derby plants. They can’t take the frosts and freezes of March and April. Heck, they can’t even handle snow flurries ...