crop yields
After two weeks without water, wheat did not survive when soil was pretreated with water
Improving crop yields substantially in arid regions by using wax-coated sand to keep soil wet longer
Paraffin wax-coated sand is an extremely water-repellant material, which keeps soil wet and increases crop
Overhead shot of heaters in the fields Allowing food production to increase despite the ever-increasing
via University of Chicago How about an RNA breakthrough that could bring a 50 percent
via Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology A portable raman leaf-clip sensor detects plant stress
Crystal structure of PCO4, with comparison of 'wild type' (WT) plant and affected plant. Giving
2016 Field Trials conducted at the University of Illinois' Energy Farm (Credit: Brian Stauffer/University of
A bumble bee pollinating a blueberry bush. Photo: Winfree lab The decline of bees and
SynBio approach the researchers deciphered how the small subunit influences potato Rubisco catalysis. Image: Elena
Plant scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) and USDA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS), in
Scientists have found how to relieve a bottleneck in the process by which plants transform
A team of scientists led by the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have
The world’s top 10 crops — barley, cassava, maize, oil palm, rapeseed, rice, sorghum, soybean, sugarcane and
An international team is using advanced tools to develop crops that give farmers more options
Plants convert sunlight into energy through photosynthesis; however, most crops on the planet are plagued