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Rosaceae

Called “rose family” in GBIF

Rosaceae, the rose family, is a family of flowering plants that includes 4,828 known species in 91 genera.

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7,848
accepted species in GBIF
Source: GBIF
286
genera in GBIF
Source: GBIF
40
plants on Plant News
132
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Plants in this family

40 plants
Apple

Apple

Malus domestica

34 articles
Strawberry

Strawberry

Fragaria × ananassa

24 articles
Peach

Peach

Prunus persica

11 articles
Chokecherry

Chokecherry

Prunus virginiana

10 articles
Cherry

Cherry

Prunus avium

7 articles
Pear

Pear

Pyrus

7 articles
Rose

Rose

Rosa

7 articles
blackberry

blackberry

Rubus

6 articles
Wild Strawberry

Wild Strawberry

Fragaria vesca

5 articles
Salmonberry

Salmonberry

Rubus spectabilis

4 articles
Sweet Cherry

Sweet Cherry

Prunus avium

3 articles
Damask Rose

Damask Rose

Rosa × damascena

2 articles
Mock Strawberry

Mock Strawberry

Potentilla indica

2 articles
Multiflora Rose

Multiflora Rose

Rosa multiflora

2 articles
Raspberry

Raspberry

Rubus idaeus

2 articles
Thimbleberry

Thimbleberry

Rubus parviflorus

2 articles
Virginia strawberry

Virginia strawberry

Fragaria virginiana

2 articles
Agrimonia pilosa

Agrimonia pilosa

1 article
Bencomia exstipulata

Bencomia exstipulata

1 article
Black Cherry

Black Cherry

Prunus serotina

1 article
black raspberry (c) Dmitriy Bochkov · Moskva, Russia · CC BY

black raspberry

Rubus occidentalis

1 article
Carolina rose

Carolina rose

Rosa carolina

1 article
Chinese Sour Cherry

Chinese Sour Cherry

Prunus pseudocerasus

1 article
cloudberry

cloudberry

Rubus chamaemorus

1 article
Common Hawthorn

Common Hawthorn

Crataegus monogyna

1 article
Great burnet

Great burnet

Sanguisorba officinalis

1 article
Japanese apricot

Japanese apricot

Prunus mume

1 article
Pacific ninebark

Pacific ninebark

Physocarpus capitatus

1 article
Plum

Plum

Prunus domestica

1 article
Portuguese laurel José Luis Camaño · Galicia, Spain · CC0

Portuguese laurel

Prunus lusitanica

1 article
Purple-flowered raspberry

Purple-flowered raspberry

Rubus odoratus

1 article
Pyracantha

Pyracantha

1 article
Quince

Quince

Cydonia oblonga

1 article
Rose Spirea

Rose Spirea

Spiraea douglasii

1 article
Sour Cherry

Sour Cherry

Prunus cerasus

1 article
Sulphur Cinquefoil

Sulphur Cinquefoil

Potentilla recta

1 article
Swedish Whitebeam

Swedish Whitebeam

Sorbus intermedia

1 article
Toyon

Toyon

Heteromeles arbutifolia

1 article
Trailing blackberry

Trailing blackberry

Rubus ursinus

1 article
Willow-leaved Cotoneaster

Willow-leaved Cotoneaster

Cotoneaster salicifolius

1 article

Genera in this family

Also here, with one plant each: Agrimonia (Agrimonia pilosa), Bencomia (Bencomia exstipulata), Cotoneaster (Willow-leaved Cotoneaster), Crataegus (Common Hawthorn), Cydonia (Quince), Heteromeles (Toyon), Malus (Apple), Physocarpus (Pacific ninebark), Sanguisorba (Great burnet), Sorbus (Swedish Whitebeam), Spiraea (Rose Spirea), Pyracantha (Pyracantha), Pyrus (Pear).

Research on Rosaceae

132 articles
iNaturalist → · observation

Willow-leaved cotoneaster confirmed growing wild in Vancouver

If you've got a drought-tolerant hedge with small white flowers and clusters of red berries in fa...

PubMed → · research article

Genetic clues explain how a rose-thorn fungus became a drug-toleran...

Sporothrix is the fungus behind 'rose gardener's disease,' and it enters through skin pricks from...

iNaturalist → · observation

Native trailing blackberry confirmed growing wild in LA County

If you're restoring a native garden or hiking LA's canyons, this low-growing blackberry is a grou...

How you extract apple pectin changes its health benefits

The apple peels and cores you toss in the compost bin contain a fiber whose molecular structure, ...

PubMed → · research article

Bacteria transform leftover apple mash into industrial chemicals

The bruised, unsellable apples that get tossed after cider pressing or a bad harvest year can be ...

What science is finding about Rosaceae

Every article on Plant News that mentions a member of this family, newest first.

Fruit-extract coating keeps grapes fresher in cold storage

If you grow table grapes on a backyard arbor, a simple edible coating made from starch and berry extract could help your...

Pyracantha food-forest / crop-improvement

Fruit flies swap yeast partners depending on the fruit they eat

If you grow cherries, strawberries, or blackberries, the pest flies damaging your fruit are quietly recruiting different...

Cherry invasive-species / plant-signaling

Moth pest flies farthest at a specific age and humidity sweet spot

If you grow corn, sunflowers, or fruit trees, understanding when this pest is actually dispersing versus just stirring in a...

Peach invasive-species / phenology

Garden shrub Portuguese laurel confirmed growing wild near Vancouver

If you garden in the Pacific Northwest, this evergreen hedge favorite is quietly seeding itself into natural areas, which...

Portuguese laurel invasive-species / urban-ecology

Willow-leaved cotoneaster confirmed growing wild in Vancouver

If you've got a drought-tolerant hedge with small white flowers and clusters of red berries in fall, you might already be...

Willow-leaved Cotoneaster urban-ecology / invasive-species

Berry pigments show modest but real anti-obesity benefits in studies

The deep purple and red hues in your blueberries, black currants, and purple cabbage aren't just pretty, they're the same...

Cherry medicinal-plants / food-forest

Scientists find the gene switch behind year-round strawberries

The strawberries filling your garden bed or farmers market table most of the year instead of just in June trace back to a...

Strawberry crispr / crop-improvement

Chinese herbs rival antibiotics at fighting chicken gut germs

The same antibiotic resistance crisis showing up in farm animals is a preview of what happens to soil and garden ecosystems...

Agrimonia pilosa medicinal-plants / ethnobotany

Gene editing trees without foreign DNA still hits roadblocks

The apples, poplars, and grapevines in orchards and windbreaks near you could one day be bred for disease resistance or...

Apple crispr / crop-improvement

DNA tests and water baiting best catch nursery plant pathogens before they reach wildlands

The native toyon and coffeeberry you buy for a habitat garden or restoration planting could carry root-rotting pathogens into...

Toyon native-plants / plant-disease

Genetic clues explain how a rose-thorn fungus became a drug-tolerant epidemic

Sporothrix is the fungus behind 'rose gardener's disease,' and it enters through skin pricks from thorns, sphagnum moss, and...

Rose fungal-pathogens / genomics

Hidden root-eating worms threaten crops worldwide, and better monitoring and clean stock can help

The stunted, knobby-rooted tomatoes or carrots in your vegetable bed may be infested with root-knot nematodes, and buying...

Strawberry soil-health / climate-adaptation

Native trailing blackberry confirmed growing wild in LA County

If you're restoring a native garden or hiking LA's canyons, this low-growing blackberry is a groundcover you can identify and...

Trailing blackberry native-plants / foraging

Scientists edit tree genes without foreign DNA using cell soup

The pears, apples, and other orchard fruits you buy take years to breed better versions of because trees are slow and stubborn...

Pear crispr / crop-improvement

How you extract apple pectin changes its health benefits

The apple peels and cores you toss in the compost bin contain a fiber whose molecular structure, and therefore its usefulness...

Apple food-science / crop-improvement

Bacteria transform leftover apple mash into industrial chemicals

The bruised, unsellable apples that get tossed after cider pressing or a bad harvest year can be fermented by bacteria into...

Apple food-forest / composting

Letting plastic-free mulch rot in the field beats landfilling it

If you use biodegradable mulch or landscape fabric in your garden beds, leaving it in place to break down rather than hauling...

Strawberry mulching / soil-health

Fish farm wastewater can feed blackberries and boost their defenses

If you garden in a dry region or run a backyard aquaponics setup, this suggests your fish tank runoff could water fruit plants...

blackberry aquaponics / climate-adaptation

Cold storage quietly strips sweet cherries of their fresh flavor

The cherries that taste bland by the time they hit your fruit bowl aren't imagining it: this research maps exactly which...

Sweet Cherry crop-improvement / food-forest

Robot arm learns to prune and pick fruit trees

The gnarled apple tree in your backyard that takes a professional pruner years of trained eye to shape correctly could someday...

Apple pruning / crop-improvement

Fruit tree netting blocks pests but also drives away pollinators

The netted apple, cherry, or nut orchard you pass on a drive through farm country is quietly cutting off pollinators and...

Apple pollinators / urban-ecology

Rare earth elements in soil may explain why some strawberries taste sweeter

The strawberry patch in your backyard or the pints at your farmers market could taste sweeter or blander depending on trace...

Strawberry crop-improvement / food-forest

Plum-damaging insect confuses sticky traps with flowers

If you grow plums, cherries, or apricots, the same white flowers that signal spring to you are also luring in a...

Plum plant-signaling / pollinators

Gene editing could give apple trees natural disease immunity

If you've ever grown an apple tree and watched its leaves develop dark blotchy spots by midsummer, that's likely this exact...

Apple crispr / crop-improvement

Certain peach rootstocks naturally shrink tree size in nurseries

If you grow peaches in a small backyard, the rootstock grafted underneath your tree, not the variety on top, is what decides...

Peach crop-improvement / propagation

Vitamin C sprays help roses bloom more and smell better

If you grow roses for cut flowers or fragrance, a simple vitamin C spray could mean more blooms and richer-smelling petals...

Rose crop-improvement / medicinal-plants

One protein family controls how fruit gets its color

The next time you watch a tomato turn red on the vine or an apple blush in the fall sun, a specific set of genetic switches...

Apple plant-signaling / crop-improvement

AI helps robots figure out how to grab apples right

The next time you see an autonomous harvester rolling through an orchard, this is the kind of vision system deciding which...

Apple crop-improvement / urban-ecology

A simpler way to hunt down the genes behind great apples

The apple varieties you plant in your yard or find at a farmers market take decades to breed, and this method could shave...

Apple crop-improvement / propagation

Pear trees have a hidden gene switch that fights fungal disease

If you grow pear trees or love visiting an orchard in fall, this points toward future disease-resistant varieties that need...

Pear crop-improvement / plant-signaling

Lab-grown strawberries lose gut bacteria, but scientists can add it back

If you've ever bought a store strawberry transplant that struggled to take root, this research explains why: tissue-culture...

Strawberry propagation / soil-health

Newly found bugs and fungi could help fight stone fruit disease

If you grow cherries, peaches, or other stone fruit, the leafhoppers quietly feeding on your trees may carry a lethal disease,...

Cherry crop-improvement / invasive-species

Chokecherry sightings spike as this native shrub fruits nationwide

The dark red clusters ripening on chokecherry shrubs along trails and fencerows right now are edible once cooked into jelly or...

Chokecherry foraging / native-plants

Native chokecherry spotted thriving along Bend's Deschutes River Trail

Chokecherry feeds birds, bears, and pollinators all along river corridors, so spotting one on a popular trail is a reminder of...

Chokecherry native-plants / foraging

New DNA tests spot nematode-resistant peach and almond rootstocks

If you've ever lost a peach tree to weak, stunted roots, the culprit might be root-knot nematodes, and breeders are now using...

Peach crop-improvement / pest-resistance

New AI catches tiny apple leaf diseases other tools miss

If you grow apple trees, catching rust or leaf spot while it's still a few small dots on a handful of leaves, rather than...

Apple crop-improvement / plant-signaling

Gene activity mapped across yellow rose petal growth stages

The yellow roses lining garden beds and flower shops get their color from a genetic program that breeders can now study in...

Rose crop-improvement / phenology

Chokecherry sightings surge as its fruit ripens this week

If you spot clusters of dark red-to-black berries on a shrubby tree along a trail or fence line this week, there's a good...

Chokecherry native-plants / foraging

Verified sighting maps where great burnet grows in Alaska

Every confirmed sighting like this one helps botanists track where great burnet actually grows versus where old records...

Great burnet native-plants / phenology

AI plus crop science predicts apple harvest dates more accurately

If you grow apple trees, knowing that chilling hours and elevation drive ripening timing more than almost anything else helps...

Apple phenology / climate-adaptation

Mulch and manure help drought-stressed roses bloom more

If you grow roses (or any water-thirsty ornamental) in a dry climate, this shows that layering mulch with composted manure can...

Damask Rose mulching / composting

Solitary bees absorb far more metal pollution than honey bees do

If you grow apples or plant flowers to support pollinators, the fungicides and soil particles those blooms pick up are landing...

Apple pollinators / native-plants

Chokecherry sightings surge as its dark fruit ripens now

That scraggly shrub along the fence line or trail edge is chokecherry, and its clusters of dark red fruit are a favorite of...

Chokecherry native-plants / foraging

A Scandinavian tree turns up growing in downtown Toronto

Street trees you walk past every day often aren't native at all, and citizen naturalists tracking sightings like this one help...

Swedish Whitebeam urban-ecology / native-plants

Invasive rose shrub confirmed spreading in a New York town

If you're weeding a fence line or hiking a local trail in the lower Hudson Valley, this thorny shrub can form dense,...

Multiflora Rose invasive-species / native-plants

This solo bee could help orchards outlast the honeybee crisis

If you grow fruit trees, the small blue-black bees nesting in hollow stems near your yard each spring may be doing more...

Apple pollinators / native-plants

Native thimbleberry spotted thriving on a Seattle street

If you're walking a Pacific Northwest neighborhood in summer, those big velvety leaves and raspberry-like fruit belong to a...

Thimbleberry native-plants / urban-ecology

Custom bacteria teams boost strawberries and fight fruit rot

If you grow strawberries in a raised bed or container, the microbes already living around the roots could be recruited to...

Strawberry soil-health / crop-improvement

Root-dwelling microbe teams could protect strawberries from disease naturally

The strawberries in your backyard patch or local farm stand may soon get a boost from a probiotic-style soil treatment instead...

Strawberry soil-health / crop-improvement

Rare native raspberry relative spotted blooming in Watkins Glen gorge

If you hike the Finger Lakes gorges, this is the shrub with big purple flowers and fuzzy stems that isn't actually a raspberry...

Purple-flowered raspberry native-plants / phenology

New AI combo spots apple leaf disease with near-perfect accuracy

If you've got an apple tree in your backyard with mysterious spotted leaves, this kind of tool could eventually live in a...

Apple crop-improvement / plant-signaling

AI camera tool spots and grades peach leaf disease outdoors

If you grow peach trees, catching shot hole disease early and knowing how bad it is could save your harvest before the damage...

Peach crop-improvement / plant-signaling

Native chokecherry shrub confirmed growing wild in Montana

If you're planting for birds and pollinators in the Mountain West, chokecherry is a proven native that feeds wildlife and can...

Chokecherry native-plants / urban-ecology

Native Pacific ninebark spotted thriving in an Oregon roadside

Pacific ninebark is a workhorse native shrub for Pacific Northwest gardeners: its spring clusters of white flowers feed bees...

Pacific ninebark native-plants / pollinators

Native pink shrub confirmed growing wild on BC's Sunshine Coast

If you're restoring a soggy corner of your yard or a streambank near you, Rose Spirea is the kind of native shrub that thrives...

Rose Spirea native-plants / citizen-science

These mites stop blackberries from ripening, but one variety resists

If you grow blackberries and have noticed hard, sour, red drupelets that never sweeten up at harvest time, this research...

blackberry crop-improvement / invasive-species

Peach trees can recruit their own nitrogen-fixing bacteria

If you grow fruit trees, this points to a future where smarter, lower fertilizer inputs work with the tree's own root...

Peach plant-signaling / soil-health

Autumn hormone spray delays cherry bloom, cutting frost risk

Cherry trees in your region are blooming earlier each decade, and a single late frost can wipe out an entire year's fruit...

Sweet Cherry climate-adaptation / phenology

Wild black raspberry spotted along Vermont forest edges in Richford

Black raspberries ripen weeks before cultivated varieties, so spotting one in the wild tells you exactly when to scout your...

black raspberry native-plants / foraging

Rare Canary Islands shrub proves fragile against drought and frost

Endemic plants clinging to a single mountainside are the canaries in the coal mine for climate tipping points, and this one is...

Bencomia exstipulata climate-adaptation / native-plants

Scientists mapped every genetic switch controlling how plants make scent

The fragrance fading from modern roses isn't accidental; breeders selected for looks and shelf life over scent, and mapping...

Rose plant-signaling / floral-scent

Mated moth antennae switch on one sensor to skip egg-laying sites

Peach orchards and corn plots across Asia are being bored apart by a moth whose larvae tunnel directly into fruit and ears,...

Peach pest-management / plant-signaling

Rose waste from distilleries blocks blood sugar enzymes better than prescription drugs

Those spent petals and pruned rose canes you're composting after harvest could be worth keeping: the 'waste' from damask roses...

Damask Rose medicinal-plants / ethnobotany

BEYOND THE GROVE: UNVEILING THE ECOLOGY AND DIVERSITY OF X-DISEASE, ‘CANDIDATUS PHYTOPLASMA PRUNI’, STRAINS IN EXTRA-ORCHARD ENVIRONMENTS

Wild chokecherries lining the trails and roadsides near you may be hosting a pathogen that's quietly reshaping which cherries...

Cherry plant-disease / native-plants

thimbleberry (Rubus parviflorus) observed in Greater Vancouver, CA-BC, CA

Thimbleberry is one of the easiest native shrubs to establish in a shady Pacific Northwest garden — it spreads by runners,...

Thimbleberry native-plants / urban-ecology

sulphur cinquefoil (Potentilla recta) observed in Solon, NY, USA

Sulphur cinquefoil spreading into roadsides and meadows near you is an early warning sign for a pasture or restoration...

Sulphur Cinquefoil invasive-species / citizen-science

Pesticide-induced ecological traps and insect pollinator foraging network disruption in apple orchards compared to adjacent graveyard refugia.

Every bee that disappears from a sprayed orchard is one fewer visitor to the wildflowers and vegetables in your garden — and...

Apple pollinators / pesticide-ecology

The molecular regulation of axillary bud fate determination and outgrowth into branch crown in strawberry involves BRC1.

Every strawberry runner your plants send out this summer — those arching stems that root and make free daughter plants —...

Wild Strawberry crispr / plant-signaling

Zhongchi Liu.

Strawberry breeders working to develop varieties that fruit longer, ripen more evenly, or tolerate heat stress depend on...

Strawberry crop-improvement / plant-signaling

Effect of Day Length on Growth, Flowering, and Yield of Three Strawberry Varieties in a Tropical Climate

Growing strawberries in a warm climate is notoriously tricky, but a 12-hour LED lighting schedule can coax Japanese varieties...

Strawberry crop-improvement / controlled-environment-agriculture

Population dynamics of Drosophila suzukii across elevations in Wenchuan, China.

Cherry, raspberry, or blueberry growers: that ornamental honeysuckle or wild sour cherry growing at the edge of your planting...

Sweet Cherry invasive-species / phenology

High Amendment Lignin-to-Nitrogen Ratio Reduces Efficacy of Anaerobic Soil Disinfestation in Managing Strawberry Root Rot Pathogens.

If you grow strawberries and keep losing plants to mysterious root rot, the fix might already be growing in your garden:...

Strawberry soil-health / composting

Lipid ligand binding and membrane interactions of a novel food-derived lipid transfer protein enhance basophil allergic responses.

If you grow lupins or peaches and eat them fresh from the garden, the fats naturally present on the skin or in the seed coat...

Peach plant-allergens / food-safety

Understanding the control of perpetual flowering and continuous runnering in strawberry

If you grow strawberries and have ever wished your ever-bearing variety would also send out enough runners to fill a new bed,...

Strawberry crispr / crop-improvement

Color phenotyping and genome-wide association studies of raspberry fruit quality

If you grow raspberries, the genetic markers found here could eventually help breeders release home-garden varieties with...

Raspberry crop-improvement / fruit-quality

Honeybee pollination enhances pollen germination, pollen tube growth, phytohormone responses and gene expression in pear pistils.

Letting honeybees work your pear tree rather than hand-pollinating isn't just easier — the bees trigger a hormonal response...

Pear pollinators / crop-improvement

mock strawberry (Potentilla indica) observed in Rowley Rd, Clarksville, MD, US

Mock strawberry creeping through your lawn or garden bed is easy to overlook as a weed — but its look-alike fruits and low...

Mock Strawberry invasive-species / urban-ecology

Genome study maps the war between fire blight and its viruses

Fire blight can turn a healthy backyard apple or pear tree into blackened, dying branches in a single wet spring, and this...

Apple crispr / plant-pathogens

Pan-genome analysis of the P-type ATPase gene family in Prunus mume and functional characterization of PmAHA3 in organic acid accumulation.

Breeders working with ornamental plums and apricots now have a precise genetic dial for tuning fruit sourness — meaning the...

Japanese apricot crispr / crop-improvement

Traditional Respiratory Remedies From Anatolia: Ethnobotanical Insights and Bioactive Properties.

Elderberry, chamomile, plantain, and nettles growing in your garden or hedgerow have been quietly treating coughs and chest...

Quince ethnobotany / medicinal-plants

Trending: chokecherry (Prunus virginiana) — 393 observations this week

Chokecherry thickets along your local trail edges are producing clusters of dark red fruit right now — and they're one of the...

Chokecherry native-plants / phenology

Trending: multiflora rose (Rosa multiflora) — 1008 observations this week

Multiflora rose forms impenetrable thickets that crowd out the native shrubs and wildflowers your local pollinators and...

Multiflora Rose invasive-species / phenology

Trending: Virginia strawberry (Fragaria virginiana) — 374 observations this week

Virginia strawberry is fruiting in yards, meadows, and trail edges right now — and the tiny red berries are edible, intensely...

Virginia strawberry native-plants / foraging

Trending: chokecherry (Prunus virginiana) — 506 observations this week

Chokecherry thickets along roadsides and woodland edges are prime spots to watch for tiger swallowtails and cedar waxwings...

Chokecherry native-plants / phenology

Carolina rose (Rosa carolina) observed in Upton Cemetery Ln, Upton, KY, US

Carolina rose is a tough, drought-tolerant native shrub that supports pollinators and wildlife — and spotting it in a cemetery...

Carolina rose native-plants / citizen-science

Pangenome and resequencing analyses reveal flowering evolution and genetic control in Cerasus.

Cherry trees lining your neighborhood streets or blooming in your backyard may soon be bred to flower more reliably as springs...

Cherry phenology / genomics

A LEA2 domain-containing protein PpLEA37 promotes seed germination under salinity and drought stresses through abscisic acid signaling.

Seeds planted in a late-summer drought or salty coastal garden bed often just sit there and fail — this discovery points...

Peach seed-saving / climate-adaptation

Trending: Virginia strawberry (Fragaria virginiana) — 441 observations this week

Wild strawberry patches threading through your lawn or meadow edge aren't weeds — they're a ground-level native that feeds...

Virginia strawberry native-plants / foraging

Trending: chokecherry (Prunus virginiana) — 481 observations this week

Chokecherry thickets lining roadsides and forest edges right now are loaded with clusters of tart, dark berries that...

Chokecherry native-plants / foraging

Phenological growth phases of dwarf apple trees: coding and description based on the BBCH scale.

Knowing exactly when your apple tree is budding, flowering, or setting fruit lets you time your watering, fertilizing, and...

Apple phenology / pruning

Evaluating biodiversity and ecosystem services offered by spontaneous revegetation in a restored quarry area in Tuscany.

Abandoned quarries near your region could be quietly becoming some of the best wildlife habitat around — native plants...

blackberry native-plants / urban-ecology

The MADS domain transcription factor AGAMOUS-LIKE 15 suppresses resistance against Botryosphaeria dothidea in apple.

Apple trees in backyard orchards and community food forests spend enormous energy fending off fungal rot each season;...

Apple plant-signaling / crop-improvement

Effects of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on the bacterial communities of three compartments in strawberry roots.

Sprinkling a specific soil fungus around your strawberry bed could quietly recruit a team of beneficial bacteria that work...

Strawberry mycorrhizal-networks / soil-health

Mish, Bogs, and Berries: The Significance of Boreal Heathlands as Indigenous Cultural Landscapes.

Berry patches you stumble across in open, scrubby terrain aren't accidental — generations of Indigenous knowledge shaped which...

cloudberry ethnobotany / native-plants

Trending: chokecherry (Prunus virginiana) — 345 observations this week

Chokecherry thickets along roadsides and forest edges are ripening right now, and the dark astringent berries you can spot on...

Chokecherry native-plants / foraging

Chilling-responsive strigolactone signaling orchestrates bud break and chilling tolerance in apple.

Those 'chilling hours' on apple nursery tags — the reason you can't grow a Honeycrisp reliably in coastal California — now...

Apple plant-signaling / climate-adaptation

Deep convolutional models for robust multi-crop disease recognition in real-world conditions.

If you grow tomatoes, potatoes, or grapes in your backyard and something starts going wrong with the leaves, a tool like this...

Apple crop-improvement / ai-plant-diagnosis

Synergistic melatonin and myo-inositol application reinforces antioxidant defence, osmotic homeostasis, and membrane stability in Western Himalayan apple rootstocks under drought stress.

Apple trees in mountain orchards facing longer dry spells could be shielded with a simple leaf treatment rather than more...

Apple climate-adaptation / crop-improvement

MdUGT88F1 enhances plant resistance to Fusarium proliferatum f.sp. malus domestica MR5 via root exudate-mediated assembly of disease-suppressive rhizosphere microbiota.

Apple orchards worldwide are quietly being poisoned by their own soil after replanting, and this research points toward a...

Apple soil-health / crop-improvement

Decadal Spatiotemporal Dynamics and Genetic Diversity of Erwinia amylovora in China (2016-2025) Revealed by CRISPR Genotyping.

Pear and apple trees in home orchards across Central Asia and increasingly beyond are threatened by a disease that has quietly...

Pear invasive-species / plant-disease

Improving Peach Fruit Yield and Quality Using Foliar Application of Nano Chelated Zinc and Seaweed Extract (<i>Spirulina platensis</i>): A Multivariate Analysis Approach.

Peaches at your farmers market could be sweeter, firmer, and less likely to bruise or rot before reaching your kitchen — just...

Peach crop-improvement / nano-agriculture

Soil management strategies shape bacterial and eukaryotic community structure in organic and inorganic systems of Malus × domestica production.

Mulching your apple trees or garden beds with straw or compost doesn't just feed the soil once — it builds a lasting microbial...

Apple soil-health / organic-farming

Fvchli deficiency impairs ABA-mediated stomatal closure and enhances susceptibility to Xanthomonas fragariae in strawberry.

Strawberry angular leaf spot — caused by the bacterium this study targets — is one of the most damaging diseases for...

Strawberry crispr / plant-signaling

Resistance of Botrytis cinerea to anilinopyrimidine fungicides: A novel ARMS-PCR method for the detection of Bcpos5 mutations and characterization of resistance using CRISPR/Cas9 editing.

Gray mold quietly destroys strawberry and tomato harvests — and the fungicide most growers spray to stop it is increasingly...

Strawberry fungicide-resistance / crispr

Precision editing to improve fruit traits: CRISPR/Cas into the picture.

Strawberries, bananas, and tomatoes at your grocery store could soon be bred to resist disease and pack more nutrients without...

Apple crispr / crop-improvement

Integrative morphological and genomic analyses reveal diversity, reticulate evolution, and adaptation in diploid and tetraploid Rosa species from Xinjiang.

Wild roses from Central Asia are the ancestors of many garden roses you grow today, and understanding which genes help them...

Rose climate-adaptation / genomics

Geostatistical spatial mapping of soil potassium fractions and targeted fertilization strategies for improving apple productivity and fruit quality in highland orchards.

Knowing exactly where your apple tree's soil is potassium-poor — rather than guessing and over-fertilizing everywhere — means...

Apple soil-health / crop-improvement

Conned by the enemy: the entomopathogenic fungus Metarhizium anisopliae lures and kills Drosophila suzukii.

The strawberries, blueberries, and cherries at your farmers market are under constant threat from an invasive fly that ruins...

Raspberry biocontrol / invasive-species

Reduced confidence intervals and novel candidate genes for quantitative trait loci associated with apple scab resistance in Malus domestica

The apples at your grocery store or farmers market likely come from orchards drenched in fungicides to fight apple scab — this...

Apple crop-improvement / disease-resistance

Conventional and biodegradable microplastics elicit contrasting taxon-level responses in rhizosphere microbiomes of maize and strawberry.

Plastic mulch film and garden plastic debris breaking down in your vegetable beds is quietly reshaping the microbial ecosystem...

Strawberry soil-health / microplastics

Multiple origins of the apple seed microbiome: disentangling sexual and asexual transmission pathways.

The bacteria living inside the apple seeds you plant—or that apple trees pass to their offspring—directly influence how...

Apple seed-microbiome / crop-improvement

Morphology, biology and plant host damage comparison between Tetranychus merganser and Tetranychus urticae (Acari: Tetranychidae).

If spider mites are shredding your rose bushes or pepper plants, the species doing the damage matters — because these two look...

Rose pest-management / crop-improvement

Rhizosphere microbial shifts drive amygdalin detoxification and jasmonate-mediated alleviation of peach autotoxicity.

Peaches grown in the same orchard year after year slowly poison themselves through their own root chemicals — but the right...

Peach soil-health / crop-improvement

Trending: Salmonberry (Rubus spectabilis) — 170 observations this week

Salmonberries ripen earlier than almost any other wild berry in spring, and tracking when and where people spot them helps...

Salmonberry citizen-science / phenology

Morphological and hormonal diversity in rose (Rosa hybrida L.) and potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) Ri genotypes: A comparative study.

Roses and potatoes bred with this bacterial trick could be made more compact, root more easily from cuttings, and potentially...

Rose crop-improvement / plant-signaling

Polyploidy and plant resilience to environmental stresses: Molecular mechanisms and future applications.

The wheat in your bread, the strawberries in your garden, and the cotton in your clothes all carry extra chromosome sets that...

Strawberry climate-adaptation / crop-improvement

Trending: Salmonberry (Rubus spectabilis) — 199 observations this week

Burst of community sightings helps scientists track exactly when and where salmonberry is flowering and fruiting each year —...

Salmonberry phenology / citizen-science

High-resolution distribution map of apple orchards in China based on multisource data.

China grows more apples than any other country, and knowing exactly where those orchards are helps scientists predict how...

Apple crop-mapping / climate-adaptation

Climate impacts apple pollination, yield and economic outcomes of farmers.

Apples at your grocery store or farmers market depend on a delicate balance of bees and weather, and as climates shift, the...

Apple climate-adaptation / pollinator-health

Microbial community succession and dynamics during the season-long development of apple fruit (Malus × domestica).

Understanding the 'good' microbes naturally living on apples could eventually replace or reduce chemical pesticide use,...

Apple crop-improvement / soil-health

mock strawberry (Potentilla indica) observed in MD-423, Tracys Landing, MD, US

Mock strawberry quietly spreads through lawns, gardens, and parks near you — and knowing where it's showing up helps...

Mock Strawberry invasive-species / urban-ecology

black cherry (Prunus serotina) observed in Wildwood Dr SE, Huntsville, AL, US

Black cherry is a native tree that produces fruit eaten by dozens of bird species and supports hundreds of moth and butterfly...

Black Cherry urban-ecology / citizen-science

Trending: Salmonberry (Rubus spectabilis) — 123 observations this week

Tracking when and where salmonberry blooms and fruits each year helps gardeners, foragers, and conservationists understand how...

Salmonberry phenology / citizen-science

Soil In-situ Enrichment Coupled with RPA-CRISPR/Cas12b for Rapid and Visual On-Site Detection of Fusarium oxysporum in Strawberry.

Strawberry wilt can wipe out entire crops silently through the soil, and this new tool lets farmers catch it early enough to...

Strawberry crop-improvement / soil-health

Trending: Salmonberry (Rubus spectabilis) — 113 observations this week

Tracking when and where salmonberry blooms and fruits each year helps gardeners, foragers, and conservationists understand how...

Salmonberry phenology / urban-ecology

common hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna) observed in 8th Street & Forest, Chico, CA 95928, USA

Hawthorn can spread into wild areas and outcompete native plants, so knowing exactly where it grows in your city helps land...

Common Hawthorn urban-ecology / invasive-species

Spermidine improves plant growth and reduces dinotefuran accumulation in strawberries by competitively occupying ABC transporters.

It points toward a practical, natural way to grow safer strawberries with lower pesticide residues — the kind you actually eat...

Strawberry crop-improvement / plant-signaling

Protective holobiome promotes strawberry tolerance of biotic stresses.

Strawberries you buy at the store — or grow in your garden — may soon be protected by beneficial microbes instead of chemical...

Strawberry soil-health / crop-improvement

Genotype-Dependent Rhizosphere Microbiome Assembly Improves Potassium Use Efficiency in Pear Rootstocks Under Low Potassium Stress.

It means the pears you buy at the grocery store could one day be grown with far less chemical fertilizer — saving farmers...

Pear soil-health / crop-improvement

The MdOST1-MdCNGC1C-MdCaM7.1 module fine-tunes cold-induced calcium signaling in apple.

Understanding exactly how apple trees sense and survive freezing could help breeders develop frost-resistant varieties,...

Apple plant-signaling / climate-adaptation

The NPR7-TGA6-MYB1 module promotes anthocyanin biosynthesis and integrates salicylic acid and strigolactone signaling in apple.

Red color of apples isn't just cosmetic — anthocyanins are the antioxidants that make apples healthy to eat, and understanding...

Apple plant-signaling / crop-improvement