Agriculture
- Environmentally friendly farming practices used by nearly one third of world's farms: Less developed countries tend to see the largest improvements in productivity (28 Aug 2018)
- Stressed seedlings in space (16 Aug 2018)
- A way to get green revolution crops to be productive without needing so much nitrogen (16 Aug 2018)
- Scientists identify factors which drive the evolution of herbicide resistance (02 Aug 2018)
- New robots set to transform farming (17 Jun 2018)
- Scientists boost crop production by 47 percent by speeding up photorespiration (02 Jun 2018)
- One step closer to crops with twice the yield (19 Nov 2017)
- 27-Year Study Finds the Amount of Insects Flying in the Air Has Declined 75 Percent (19 Nov 2017)
- Crops evolved 10 millennia earlier than thought (23 Oct 2017)
- Pest resistance to biotech crops surging (11 Oct 2017)
- Ant agricultural revolution began 30 million years ago in dry, desert-like climate (11 Sep 2017)
- Reversing pest resistance to biotech cotton: The secret is in the mix (10 Sep 2017)
- Making cows more environmentally friendly (10 Sep 2017)
- New plant research leads to discovery of a gene that increases seed yield in maize (22 Mar 2017)
- Root microbiome engineering improves plant growth (01 Aug 2016)
- Harvesting clues to GMO dilemmas from China's soybean fields (04 Jul 2016)
- Resistance genes from wild relatives of crops offer opportunities for more sustainable agriculture worldwide (29 Jun 2016)
- Where bread began: Ancient tools used to reconstruct -- and taste -- prehistoric cuisine (14 Jun 2016)
- GM -- 'the most critical technology' for feeding the world (28 May 2016)
- New GMO Controversy: Are the Herbicides Dangerous? (27 May 2016)
- Extra DNA creates cucumber with all female flowers (07 May 2016)
- Scientists advance disease resistance in three of world's most important crops (26 Apr 2016)
- New gene-detecting technology brings new, resilient superwheat closer (26 Apr 2016)
- Over 80% of future deforestation confined to just 11 places (24 Apr 2016)
- Genetic road map may bring about better cotton crops (23 Apr 2016)
- Study: Farmers and scientists divided over climate change (11 Apr 2016)
- Plant gravity (27 Jan 2016)
- How sustainable is vertical farming? (18 Dec 2015)
- Scientists date the origin of the cacao tree to 10 million years ago (23 Nov 2015)
- Major study documents nutritional and food safety benefits of organic farming (06 Jul 2015)