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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...

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 —...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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, 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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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 ...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...