Australia's first genetically modified banana has been tweaked to protect it from a disease that's on the verge of wiping out ...

Signals from the plant cell wall help to orchestrate growth, reproduction and immune function. Can harnessing this molecular ...

To overcome this challenge, it will take farmers like me. We can’t fight in the court of law, but we can make our voices heard in the court of public opinion.

Traditional breeding and genetic modification methods have struggled to keep pace with the rapid evolution of plant viruses. CRISPR/Cas systems, originally derived from bacterial immune responses, ...

It looks pretty—but Japanese knotweed is terribly invasive. Here’s why fall is an ideal time to fight back and finally get ...

We read with interest the Lancet Commission1 on rethinking coronary artery disease, which shifts focus from ischaemia to atherosclerosis. The prominence of diet as a risk factor for atherosclerotic ...

Students at Cornell University have devised a novel way to detect if plants and agricultural crops have a sufficient supply of nitrogen.

A French research team has developed a super plant. The houseplant, named "Neo P1," is designed to filter dangerous and ...

A draft law approved by Parliament after a negative vote in the Senate was overruled by the Chamber of Deputies, clearing the ...

The Watsonville City Council approved a letter to the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors expressing concerns about a ...

“In the 60s and 70s, or probably even earlier, cycads were starting to become endangered because not just of plants being poached out of the wild, but also habitat being modified for farming practices ...