crop plants

Abundant environmental CO₂ can increase plant biomass and photosynthesis, but it has downsides for agriculture and ecosystems, a growing body of research finds.

In Chapter 7, “Grow,” author Helen Anne Curry relays the story of Indigenous revolutionaries in Mexico who tapped into community-based methods to conserve traditional corn varieties.

Rethinking why and how we conserve crop genetic diversity

Hand weeding of fields spurred an interloper to evolve a rice-like appearance, researchers conclude.

The small molecule is effective in tomato and wheat in laboratory trials, but its scalability and applicability to real-world agriculture remains to be seen.

A Minnesota-based company reports the sale of a soybean oil engineered to have greater stability and no trans-fat.

The agritech industry is editing plant genomes to feed a growing population, expand the produce aisle, and make tastier, more convenient food products.

Risks that pertain to all manner of new crops are often misattributed to genetic engineering. This distorts the public’s view of the technology.

Bumblebee colonies grow poorly in landscapes dominated by maize, researchers find.

A case in which the University of Florida killed birds to protect crop research raises questions on the ethics of field studies’ potential side effects.

The 20-year project calls into question the conventional wisdom about the role plants will play in mitigating future climate change.

It has become increasingly evident that, like animals, plants are not autonomous organisms but rather are populated by a cornucopia of diverse microorganisms.

The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center researcher links complex traits to the genes that underlie them.