A new technique may make it easier to selectively breed crop plants for better, deeper roots. The non-destructive process involves quickly checking a plant's leaves to see how far down its roots go ...

And when one of the most innovative and well-respected plant breeders in the seed industry is concerned, people tend to take notice. “We need scientists and technicians,” he said Thursday during his ...

Lewis is developing sustainable soil solutions helping High Plains farmers build profitable resilient ag systems.

A crop scientist who grew up in Nigeria is working with hundreds of researchers and thousands of farmers to improve crop productivity and food security in Africa. There are an estimated 33 million ...

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In a major step toward securing global food supplies and advancing sustainable agriculture, a team of scientists has proposed an integrated framework that combines biotechnology and artificial ...

An international team led by investigators at the Wageningen University Centre for Crop Systems Analysis in The Netherlands examined the richness, abundance, and composition of crop species in ...

Crop yields are at risk in Kansas, Nebraska and Texas as groundwater continues to be depleted, a study has found. Irrigation for crops relies on the groundwater extracted from aquifers, which are ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Crop scientists in the United States, the world's largest food exporter, are pondering an odd question: could the danger of global warming really be the heat? For years, as ...

(Bloomberg) -- Right after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, crop scientist Inbal Becker-Reshef got a letter from officials in Kyiv. They wanted to figure out how much wheat and other grains ...

Crop Science Society of Nigeria (CSSN) members have urged government, at the federal, state and local levels, to engage crop scientists to overcome the food insecurity confronting the country. They ...