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It could mean that people with celiac disease — roughly 1 in 100 worldwide — may one day safely e...

It could dramatically speed up the development of crops that resist drought, pests, or disease — ...

The wheat in your bread and the vegetables in your garden depend on precise temperature cues to k...

The corn in your grocery store and the staple food keeping millions of East African families fed ...

It points toward a new generation of disease-resistant rice that could protect harvests for billi...

Scientists discovered how a wheat-infecting rust fungus hijacks a plant protein to incr...

Disabling a single gene could allow breeders to cross wild rice relatives with cultivated rice, p...

It points toward soybeans (and potentially other crops) that need fewer pesticides and fungicides...

It could lead to crops that are more nutritious, drought-resistant, or disease-proof — directly a...

Every time you toast bread or bake cookies, a potentially cancer-linked chemical called acrylamid...

Fruits, vegetables, and grains you rely on are increasingly threatened by droughts made worse by ...

As summers get hotter, the vegetables and flowers in your garden are quietly accumulating more ge...

Rice varieties being developed through this research could increase yields on existing farmland —...

Researchers demonstrate how beneficial microorganisms living inside Gloriosa superba pl...

Tomatoes, peppers, and other crops engineered with this switch could resist devastating bacterial...

Soy-based foods like tofu, edamame, and soy milk could soon taste noticeably better and deliver h...

Crops like tomatoes, wheat, and medicinal herbs that feed and heal you could be improved far fast...

Compact dwarf grapevines could make growing wine grapes in a backyard, on a patio, or in a small ...

More efficient rice plants could mean higher food production on the same farmland — helping feed ...

It could lead to herbicide-tolerant rice and other crops that regulators classify as non-GMO, pot...

Understanding exactly how corn and other grass crops regulate water loss through their leaves cou...

Food on your plate — from the wheat in your bread to the tomatoes in your salad — could soon be g...

It could accelerate the development of crops that resist drought, pests, and disease — meaning mo...

It opens a path to developing disease-resistant citrus trees and faster-growing poplars without t...

Cooking oil in your pantry likely came from soybeans that require industrial processing to stay s...

It could lead to naturally sweeter tomatoes in grocery stores and home gardens — no artificial fl...

It brings us closer to tomatoes and other garden crops that naturally fend off insects on their o...

Understanding how plants naturally defend themselves against insects could inspire new ways to pr...

Cotton seeds are crushed into cottonseed oil used in cooking and food products worldwide, so bree...

The tomatoes on your kitchen counter are quietly managing their own serotonin levels as they ripe...

It could lead to drought- and disease-resistant versions of the fruits, vegetables, and grains yo...

Bread, rice, and corn on your plate could soon come from crops engineered to survive the hotter, ...

Faster disease detection means farmers and growers can catch outbreaks before they spread, protec...

It could accelerate the development of crops that resist drought, disease, and pests — meaning mo...

Sea buckthorn can be grown in your garden or on degraded land, and this research signals it could...

Vegetables, grains, and fruits you eat are increasingly threatened by droughts and heat waves, an...

The rice on your plate depends on a tiny copper-moving protein inside each leaf cell — and unders...

Understanding exactly which genes control color and shape in sweet potato could help breeders dev...

Wheat feeds roughly 35% of the world's population, and the ability to surgically remove problem c...

Bananas are one mutation away from a repeat extinction-level disease outbreak like the one that w...

The tomatoes, apples, and cucumbers at your grocery store could soon be tougher against disease a...

Tomatoes, peppers, and potatoes you grow could soon be edited for disease resistance or better yi...

Clubroot destroys canola and cabbage crops worldwide, and this discovery points to a specific gen...

Crops engineered to resist drought, disease, or pests with large genetic upgrades — things that h...

Rice you eat likely came from fields doused in pesticides to fight the striped stem borer — this ...

The wheat, rice, and vegetables heading to your plate could soon be redesigned to survive drought...

Those green specks covering your local pond could soon produce the vaccines and medicines your fa...

The tomatoes, wheat, and corn you eat could soon be engineered to survive droughts, pack more nut...

Invisible world of microbes in your garden soil is one of the most powerful tools we have for gro...

Faster, cheaper tools for studying grapevine genetics could accelerate the development of disease...

Strawberry wilt can wipe out entire crops silently through the soil, and this new tool lets farme...

Geminiviruses, spread by whiteflies, routinely wipe out tomato, pepper, and bean harvests — and C...

Understanding exactly how pea plants partner with soil bacteria to 'fix' their own nitrogen could...

Faster, cheaper disease tests mean a farmer can confirm whether their wheat field has rust fungus...

Researchers developed a portable CRISPR-based test that detects citrus stubborn disease...

Citrus tristeza virus has wiped out millions of citrus trees globally — understanding how plants ...

Tomatoes grown with this melatonin-boosting gene edit produce more carotenoids (the pigments behi...

Tomatoes in your garden could soon be bred to fight off one of their worst insect enemies on thei...

Every ear of corn and tomato on your plate survived a constant barrage of fungal blights, bacteri...

Vegetables, grains, and fruits you eat could soon be bred to withstand droughts, produce more foo...

Cadmium — a toxic heavy metal from industrial pollution and some phosphate fertilizers — silently...

Rice feeds more than half the world's population, and as droughts become more frequent with clima...

Understanding exactly how plants decide when to flower could help breeders develop crops that blo...

Rice feeds more than half the world's population, and faster, more reliable gene-editing methods ...

The tomatoes and grains at your grocery store could soon be bred to grow more efficiently by twea...

Strawberries, bananas, and tomatoes at your grocery store could soon be bred to resist disease an...

Higher-oil canola means more vegetable oil produced per acre, which could help keep cooking oil a...

The wheat in your bread and the vegetables in your garden could soon be grown from varieties engi...

Soybeans in your grocery store—from tofu to soybean oil to animal feed—could soon be nutritionall...

The heirloom tomatoes you grow from saved seed or find at the farmers market have never had the b...

The tomatoes, wheat, and rice that stock your grocery shelves could soon be engineered to survive...

Understanding how plants switch on clusters of genes could let scientists engineer crops that pro...

Canola oil in your kitchen comes from a crop routinely devastated by white mold fungus, which can...

Understanding how plants take up nutrients from soil could lead to crops that need less fertilize...

Soybeans are in roughly 70% of processed foods you eat, and these new precision editing tools cou...

These discoveries could lead to crops that produce more food, taste better, or survive droughts a...

Species that vanished from your region in the last few centuries — the wildflowers, native shrubs...

If you grow strawberries and have ever wished your ever-bearing variety would also send out enoug...

Better gene-editing tools bring us closer to crops that can survive drought, resist pests, or tol...

Bread, fruit, and vegetables on your table are under constant threat from fungal diseases, and be...

The rice, wheat, or corn in your pantry could soon be engineered to carry more iron, zinc, or vit...

Trees in your local park, the wood in your furniture, and the paper in your books all depend on t...

Rice varieties grown in your region exist because their ancestors evolved to flower at exactly th...

The rice in your grocery store could be grown with less phosphorus fertilizer — and stay producti...

Tomatoes and cucumbers from South Asian farms are increasingly being wiped out by a whitefly-carr...

Tomatoes, peppers, and strawberries in your garden all use the same pigment-and-lignin defense sy...

Mold toxins quietly contaminate corn, peanuts, and grains in ways that ordinary cooking and stora...

GBNV can devastate tomato, peanut, and bean crops that many gardeners and farmers rely on, and a ...

Viral diseases can wipe out entire crops before farmers even know they're present, and catching t...

When a tomato on your vine shifts from green to deep orange as it ripens, a single protein is cho...

Cracking the molecular dial that lets plants choose between growing faster and surviving drought ...

Faster, more precise plant breeding could soon bring you tomatoes, peppers, and potatoes that are...

Every tomato, carrot, and marigold in your garden owes its color to a single genetic switch that ...

Tomato plants that fruit without bees during summer heat waves could keep your garden productive ...

The wheat in your bread and pasta may soon be bred to flower earlier or produce more uniform grai...

Food grown in soil near nuclear accident sites or uranium mines can carry radioactive particles i...

Grain amaranth has fed people through droughts and poor soils for thousands of years, and this br...

Wild tomatoes growing in arid hillsides already carry a built-in drought switch that breeders cou...

Tomatoes engineered to resist drought, rice bred to fight blight without pesticides, and vegetabl...

Crops edited this way leave no trace of foreign DNA — meaning a disease-resistant tomato or bligh...

That lush, multi-stemmed bouquet flower you love at the farmers market — lisianthus — could soon ...

Wheat fields already face more frequent dry summers — this gene discovery opens a path to varieti...

Staple crops like potatoes, corn, and rice are being quietly rewritten at the molecular level so ...

Cassava and sweet potato feed hundreds of millions of people in Africa, and the same gene-editing...

When a heat wave hits your garden mid-summer and your tomatoes drop their blossoms or your lettuc...

Better gene editing tools could lead to crops that are more resistant to drought, disease, or pes...

Faster gene-editing validation means plant scientists can more quickly breed tomatoes and other c...

Understanding how kiwifruit flowers develop could help growers improve pollination success, fruit...

Understanding how rice survives drought, cold snaps, and salty soils could help scientists breed ...

Invisible bacterial communities in your garden soil are constantly signaling and competing with e...

Sugarcane supplies about 80% of the world's sugar and a growing share of renewable biofuel, so br...

Tobacco farmers lose yield to unruly side shoots they must manually remove, and the same branchin...

The garlic and greens you grow in raised beds could soon be inoculated with a precision-blended m...

Rice paddies feed half the world on shrinking water budgets — and this single gene edit quietly r...

Sorghum grows in the driest, hardest fields where other grains fail, and cleaner herbicide tolera...

Tomatoes in your garden or at a local farm market face a stealthy underground threat — a parasiti...

Every tomato, wheat plant, and garden bean in your beds is already using this genetic remix trick...

Wheat fields across the Great Plains are already losing yield to spring heat waves that hit durin...

If you've ever grown tomatoes near fields plagued by broomrape — a rootless parasite that latches...

Duckweed grows explosively fast on water surfaces you've seen in ponds and lakes, and now that sc...

New insect pest control strategies targeting insects' own biology could mean fewer broad-spectrum...

The tomatoes, squash, and herbs you're nursing through a hotter, wetter summer are facing a gaunt...

Understanding which genes keep crops alive and healthy is a key step toward breeding rice and oth...

The potato in your garden doesn't decide to form tubers by accident — a tiny RNA molecule travels...

Rice paddies worldwide are quietly starved of phosphorus — and the fertilizer fix is running out ...

Rice paddies already stressed by shifting monsoons could stay productive longer if breeders activ...

Understanding how perennial plants decide when to flower — and why some branches bloom while othe...

Faster, cheaper ways to study plant genes mean researchers can more quickly develop crops that re...

Rice feeds more than half the world's population, and this more precise editing tool could accele...

Every tomato plant, rose bush, and oak tree in your garden inherited an ancient immune system tha...

Duckweed — the green film you see floating on ponds — could soon be engineered to grow the protei...

The corn on the cob at your summer barbecue exists because breeders have spent decades coaxing ma...

Every cotton T-shirt, towel, and pair of jeans depends on the length and abundance of fibers grow...

Gray mold (Botrytis) destroys strawberries, tomatoes, and roses in your garden — understanding ex...

Fall armyworms chew through corn, sorghum, and rice fields across six continents every season, an...

Breeding better pennycress could turn an overlooked winter weed into a widespread biofuel crop, p...

The cucumbers at your farmers market or in your garden are vulnerable to fast-spreading bacterial...

Sugarcane viruses quietly erode the sugar and ethanol in every stalk harvested, meaning the price...

Rice paddies grown in soils with even trace heavy metal pollution quietly concentrate cadmium and...

Melon breeders now have a precise genetic target to eliminate the mouth-puckering bitterness that...

The bread wheat in fields near you is quietly losing ground to new diseases and hotter, drier sum...

Gromwell's deep-red root dye has colored textiles and lip balms for centuries, and unlocking the ...

Broomcorn millet is one of the oldest drought-tolerant crops humans ever cultivated — and now gen...

Tomatoes you grow from seed today are one gene-editing generation away from delivering meaningful...

The peanut butter on your toast and the boiled peanuts at the ballpark could soon be tastier, cre...

Cotton in your jeans, linen on your table, and hemp in your bag could soon be grown with far less...

When you water your tomatoes with a dilute seaweed extract or notice your basil wilting on a heat...

Salt is quietly creeping into farmland worldwide — and the same chemical plants use to defend aga...

Rice on your dinner plate — especially fragrant varieties like jasmine-style Indian rices — could...

Better gene-editing tools mean scientists can more quickly and precisely develop disease-resistan...

Every bowl of rice you eat is shaped by thousands of years of breeding, but a new class of gene t...

Rice breeders now have a dial, not just an on/off switch — meaning the bowl of rice you eat could...

Leafy greens and root vegetables grown in contaminated urban or industrial soils can quietly accu...

The rice, wheat, and vegetables you eat could be made more nutritious, drought-resilient, or dise...

Sprinkling a silicon-rich soil amendment like diatomaceous earth around your tomato plants isn't ...

If you've ever watched a field of flowering rapeseed flatten in a summer storm, this is the scien...

The tart bite of wood sorrel on a trail walk and the gritty feeling spinach leaves on your teeth ...

Crops shaped by the CRISPR tools this study tracks are already entering food systems worldwide — ...

Avocado trees infected with Sunblotch Viroid can look perfectly healthy for years while quietly p...

Grasses from your backyard lawn to ornamental bamboo share the same hormonal wiring this study ju...

Every legume cover crop you turn under to rebuild your garden soil is running this exact genetic ...

The same molecular machinery that lets a sunflower stalk stand six feet tall without snapping is ...

Cotton clothes, towels, and bedding could become stronger, softer, or more sustainably produced a...

Breeding a crop — or even an ornamental — that resists a specific disease without carrying foreig...

The gray mold that collapses your tomato plants by August has evolved its own molecular toolkit t...

Faster, easier pathogen detection means farmers can catch crop-killing infections before they spr...

The towering tulip poplar lighting up eastern forests with orange-and-green blooms each spring co...

Cuttings from your favorite ornamental tree sometimes refuse to root no matter what rooting hormo...

Every corn plant in a field quietly runs a molecular immune system shaped by millions of years of...

The tomato on your windowsill, the wheat in your bread, and the soybeans in countless foods could...

If you grow peppers, fava beans, or spinach and notice mysterious wilting or stunted plants, this...

When your tomatoes or fruit trees branch poorly or show yellowing leaves despite fertilizing, the...

Grapevine fabavirus can silently devastate a vineyard season before most growers even know it's p...

Every bag of dry lentils, every snap pea clinging to your trellis, every patch of clover feeding ...

Aspen groves — those quaking, golden-leafed giants that clone themselves across entire mountainsi...

The soil in your vegetable garden or the park where your kids play may harbor invisible carcinoge...

Bacterial diseases that devastate rice, citrus, and pepper crops worldwide may soon be controllab...

Western flower thrips can devastate a pepper, tomato, or flower garden almost invisibly, and they...

Gray mold quietly destroys strawberry and tomato harvests — and the fungicide most growers spray ...

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

Poplar and other fast-growing trees used in bioenergy and timber production could be precisely en...

Rapeseed fields planted after the rice harvest in southern China — and eventually in colder north...

Tall rice stalks snap in storms, flatten entire paddies overnight, and can wipe out a harvest tha...

Salt-damaged farmland is quietly swallowing rice paddies across South and Southeast Asia — the fi...

Rice varieties that resist new blights, tolerate flooding, and need less fertilizer all at once h...

Tomatoes are notoriously thirsty plants, and understanding how they can be bred to handle dry spe...

Cotton fields in Texas are under threat from a spreading virus that's quietly cutting yields, and...

The wheat, rice, and corn being developed with this technology could one day yield reliable harve...

Peanut butter on your shelf is one crop failure away from aflatoxin contamination — a potent carc...

Breeders working with ornamental plums and apricots now have a precise genetic dial for tuning fr...

Rice paddies across Southeast Asia are losing entire harvests to a virus spread by planthoppers —...

Understanding exactly which plant proteins cause hay fever and food allergies could lead to bette...

Rice breeders working to develop drought-tolerant or disease-resistant varieties just gained a to...

Every seed you plant — from tomatoes to native prairie flowers — decides whether to sprout or sta...

Cotton fields packed tighter together can yield more fiber per acre without clearing new land — a...

Every time you skip a synthetic fungicide on your tomatoes or squash, you're betting on something...

Carotenoids are the same pigments that make your carrots orange, tomatoes red, and marigolds glow...

Seed banks hold thousands of forgotten vegetable and grain varieties that are far more nutritious...

Liverworts have quietly been making potent antimicrobial and anti-cancer compounds for millions o...

Medicines and vaccines of tomorrow may be grown in fields rather than manufactured in expensive i...

Crops engineered with these tools could be tailored to resist drought, pests, or disease without ...

Knowing exactly which genetic modifications are in your food—whether it's the corn in your tortil...

Every tomato blight, rose black spot, and wheat rust that devastates a garden or farm is fought —...

Rice paddies worldwide get drenched in phosphate fertilizer partly because the plant panics and s...

Soybeans feed billions of people and fix nitrogen into soil — and this breakthrough means researc...

Every green leaf on every plant in your garden depends on a tightly choreographed chain of molecu...

Faster, cleaner gene-editing tools mean the rice on your plate could be bred to withstand drought...

Many herbal remedies and plant-derived medicines are limited by slow-growing plants, climate, and...

Every time you pinch a stem tip to make a houseplant branch, or watch a cutting sprout roots in w...

Heirloom and heritage tomato varieties — the ones with the best flavor but the worst disease resi...

Every cabbage, kale, and broccoli plant in your garden is a potential target for the diamondback ...

Cotton fibers are essentially single cells that must stretch to extraordinary lengths before they...

Rice paddies blanket more of Earth's farmed land than almost any other crop, and a single molecul...

Faster barley research means the drought-tolerant, disease-resistant varieties destined for farme...

The bushy, vining tomato taking over your raised bed every August exists because of one ancient g...

Vertical farms stacked in warehouses could soon grow the plant-based medicines your doctor prescr...

Corn fields on former industrial sites or heavily fertilized soils can quietly accumulate toxic z...

The potato in your garden likely carries four copies of every gene — meaning breeders have to kno...

Tomato seedlings on your windowsill are racing to germinate before their stored energy runs out —...

Soybean fields worldwide are slowly losing ground to creeping soil salinity, and this discovery h...

Barley grown for craft brewing, heritage grain projects, or cool-climate farming could be adapted...

Tomato breeders working to create cuttings that root faster — or backyard gardeners frustrated by...

Diamondback moths have evolved resistance to nearly every pesticide used against them on cabbage,...

Grapevines in your region face increasing frost-damage risk as unpredictable late freezes catch b...

Lateral roots are how plants mine deeper soil for water and nutrients, so understanding the molec...

If you've ever watched a plant push out more roots after a dry spell, you're seeing a version of ...

Those tiny pale stipples appearing on the undersides of your tomato leaves in July are spider mit...

Chloroplasts are what make plants green and allow them to capture sunlight for energy — understan...

Cacao trees can silently harbor a virus for entire growing seasons with zero visible symptoms, me...

Better gene-editing tools mean plant breeders can more safely engineer drought-resistant wheat, d...

Every rice variety, wheat strain, and corn hybrid you've ever grown carries hidden genetic contro...

Kenaf grows faster than trees and can be harvested for natural fiber, paper, and even insulation ...

Every woody stem you've ever trained up a trellis or pruned back hard owes its girth to a thin ri...

Oyster mushrooms you can grow on cardboard in your kitchen closet are at the frontier of a geneti...

Every breath you take owes something to diatoms: these single-celled algae produce as much oxygen...

Old military training grounds and quarry sites near your community may harbor explosive residues ...

Sugar crops like sugarcane demand vast land and freshwater, but microbes that eat sunlight and CO...

Seaweeds blanketing rocky shorelines and kelp forests are quietly harboring sleeping viruses that...

Algae engineered with sharper gene-editing tools could soon produce the sustainable biofuels and ...

The silvery bloom on a blueberry and the water-sheeting surface of a nasturtium leaf are relics o...

Crops and foods reaching your grocery store or farmers' market may increasingly be developed usin...

A sensor this sensitive could one day let growers catch a soil-borne pathogen—like the water mold...

Every green leaf catching sunlight in your garden runs on chloroplasts that must maintain a preci...

Faster, field-deployable disease detection means a pathogen threatening your tomatoes, fruit tree...

Yeast engineered to produce plant-identical oils and fatty acids could quietly replace palm and c...

Soil microbes under your garden beds are constantly swapping genetic tools—including antibiotic r...

New gene-edited vegetables and biotech-bred disease-resistant cultivars are waiting in legal limb...

The acerola cherry — a tropical fruit you might find at a Latin market or growing in a warm-clima...

Same wastewater that irrigates community gardens, parks, and agricultural fields carries antibiot...

Sheep blowflies destroy wool and kill sheep across Australia and beyond, driving up costs for far...

Same polyvalent CRISPR strategy was first proven in plants, meaning advances in plant virus resea...

Gene editing tools developed in medical research — like the base editors here — are the same foun...

The same CRISPR toolkit now entering human clinical trials for drug-resistant infections is alrea...

Cancer research rarely crosses into the garden, but the molecular signaling pathways studied here...

Breakthroughs in using nano-scale vesicles to ferry gene-editing cargo into animal cells are resh...

The same CRISPR scissors being refined in these diabetes trials are the exact tools crop scientis...

CRISPR gene-editing tools validated here on crustaceans are the same tools plant breeders now use...