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 ...

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

Fertilizer firm CF Industries reported a nearly 20% rise in its fourth-quarter profit on Wednesday, helped by higher ammonia ...

USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced on January 23, 2025, that it is reinstating its legacy ...

When the 'James Bentley' sank on Lake Huron in 1878, a ton of rye seeds sank with it. A scientist is now trying to bring that ...

You may have heard about the large underground seed vault in Svalbard, Norway, which opened in 2008. But you might be ...

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

Khalil Mezni, 19, and his father, Feres, have opened Alzaytoon after a year vending online and about two months at the ...

The domestication of maize is one of the greatest examples of humankind's impact on evolution. Early farmers' pre-industrial plant breeding choices turned corn from a nearly inedible crop into the ...

BioLumic is supporting field trials of UV treated ryegrass to validate methane reduction in livestock, scaling up seed ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Corn varieties in the U.S. have shown significant differences in their ability to seek water, with some losing this trait due to breeding for high yields ...