Plant protection products protect crops from pests, diseases and weeds. However, many of the fungicides, herbicides and ...

Chloroplasts—the "light power plants" of plant cells—are increasingly the focus of synthetic biology. These organelles house ...

When insects attack your garden, plants don’t simply endure the assault in silence. New research reveals they broadcast molecular distress signals to warn their neighbors about incoming threats.

Seven undergraduate scholarships of up to $3,000 each will be awarded. One $3,000 Robinson W. Joslin Scholarship, which was established in memory of Rob Joslin, a soybean farmer and long-time leader ...

Scientists have discovered a tardigrade protein, Dsup, that protects DNA from damage and may enhance human cellular resilience under extreme stress conditions.

Cutting-edge soil analysis techniques from LECO are revolutionizing carbon and nitrogen measurement, crucial for sustainable ...

A mission to search for the origin-of-life on Titan, Saturn's largest moon, will be aided by University of Otago – Ōtākou ...

The relative price measure for anhydrous compared to the corn price may have peaked in 2021, but remains at an elevated level. Fertilizer prices aren’t at historic highs, but relative to last year’s ...

A research team has developed ChatLeafDisease (ChatLD) — a training-free crop disease classification framework built on the GPT-4o large language model (LLM) with Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting.

Plant biologists have developed a method for growing transgenic and gene-edited plants that cuts the slow and expensive process down from months to weeks. Publishing November 6 in the Cell Press ...

Other birds are edible too. Pigeons have likely been consumed for thousands of years, for example, while geese may have been ...

Arabidopsis thaliana was always an unlikely candidate for the limelight. But 25 years ago, the diminutive thale cress ...