Since the first farmers tilled the soil more than 10,000 years ago, the plow has been the essential tool of human survival.

Growing multiple plants together is a great way to maximize the number of roots in the soil and the biology that makes up the ...

A corn plant knows how to find water in soil with the very tips of its roots, but some varieties, including many used for breeding high-yielding corn in the U.S., appear to have lost a portion of that ...

Co-op Casita del Barrio hosts community events about topics ranging from Indigenous yarn dyeing to growing food.

The corn earworm causes the loss of more than 76,000 bushels of corn in the United States annually, and there is mounting evidence that increasingly extreme weather events and temperatures will ...

Nitrogen is often the most limiting nutrient in growing plants. When deficient, plant yields and quality are reduced. However ...

If you're someone who can't remember to water your plants for the life of you, don't worry. You're far from alone, and you do ...

Gene-edited crops may help adaptation to climate change The centre, funded primarily by the British government, operates on ...

MaizeCODE is a genomic project analyzing the genetic basis of maize domestication. Researchers identified key regulatory ...

BEIJING -- Chinese scientists have developed a gene-editing technique to reduce corn plant height, enabling the creation of ...

The U.S. Department of Energy granted Dr. Jean-Michel Ané and his colleagues $5.5 million to study systems to cut synthetic ...