Life in places like California’s Death Valley pushes everything to its limit. Temperatures rise past 120 degrees Fahrenheit.

After decades of recording detailed information about different varieties of crops, their traits and the DNA sequences they ...

Phenotyping is the process of observing the physical characteristics of a plant in order to assess its health. Although a necessary part of crop breeding, it's also a very tedious and time-consuming ...

Wild plants are everywhere. So why do some become pests? New research has studied how agriculture created a problem for itself by turning the common waterhemp, which is a natural plant native to North ...

But problems surrounding the plant nutrient phosphorus occur in both industrialized and developing nations – albeit for different reasons – and that's why the research of Purdue University's ...

A global shift towards healthier, more sustainable eating patterns could reshape agricultural employment across the world, ...

Cover crops, plants grown to protect and enrich the soil, are known to boost soil health and help store carbon. However, the ...