Agriculture News

Even though farmers have been dealing with rice stink bugs as pests since the 1880s, entomologists are still getting to... Read more

Decades of research has shown promise for using microbiome science to solve several problems facing agriculture, but these findings have... Read more

Duckweed is the fastest-growing flowering plant, but new knowledge of duckweed genetics discovered by Adelaide University researchers could lead to... Read more

UBC Okanagan researchers and Canadian egg farmers have created a practical tool to help producers balance environmental and economic trade-offs.... Read more

In the search for climate-friendly foods, scientists have spent decades reimagining what grows in the field. But a quieter question... Read more

Researchers from the University of Oxford, Nanjing Agricultural University, and Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (Chinese Academy of Sciences)... Read more

A new study examining small-scale farming in Tanzania argues that major agricultural development initiatives, including the Alliance for a Green... Read more

University of Florida scientists have developed a tomato packed with significantly higher levels of vitamin A, a breakthrough that could... Read more

Plants around the world are flowering earlier in the year, a trend attributed to climate change. But there could be... Read more

If you were one of the many amateur bakers who learned to bake sourdough bread during lockdown, you'll know how... Read more

As the global population climbs toward 10 billion and climate change strains farmland, scientists are searching for new ways to... Read more

There is a long history of the mechanical thinning of forests in standard forestry operations. Thinning typically involves removing some... Read more

In an era of rising grocery costs, eggs remain one of the most accessible and complete protein sources for families.... Read more

When 200 natural accessions of the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana grown in a nitrate-enriched medium were compared, one observation stood... Read more

An evolutionary "arms race" for light and space led to the early domestication of wheat, according to new research that... Read more