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Crop-improvement refers to the systematic enhancement of plant varieties through selective breeding, genetic modification, and biotechnological approaches to develop cultivars with superior agronomic, nutritional, or environmental traits. This field is essential for addressing global food security, as improved crops can yield higher productivity, enhanced disease and pest resistance, and better adaptation to environmental stressors such as drought and climate variability. By developing superior plant varieties, crop-improvement research directly supports sustainable agriculture and helps ensure food production can meet growing population demands while minimizing environmental impact.

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Chloroplast Genome Editing Eliminates Gluten Immunogenicity in Trit...

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

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Nitrogen-Fixing Cereals: Engineering nif Gene Clusters in Wheat Mit...

It points toward a future where staple crops like wheat need less synthetic fertilizer — meaning ...

crispr
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CRISPR genome editing in plants without tissue culture.

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

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Editing strigolactone hormone receptor for robust antiviral silenci...

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

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Host-mediated rhizosphere microbiome transfer suppresses Fusarium o...

Fusarium wilt is actively wiping out Cavendish bananas — the variety sold in virtually every groc...

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A distorter-restorer system drives quantitative reproductive isolat...

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

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The OsNTL3-WRKY53-CatA module confers thermotolerance in rice.

As summers grow hotter and more unpredictable, the rice that feeds half the world's population is...

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Natural variation in the ORL4 promoter regulates rice leaf rolling ...

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

soil-health
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Dual functions of apigenin in suppressing Phytophthora capsici and ...

It means the peppers in your garden may already be producing their own natural defense compounds,...

directed-evolution
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Rapid in-plant directed evolution with GRAPE.

It could accelerate the development of crops that resist disease, tolerate drought, or produce mo...

mycorrhizal-networks
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Harnessing plant-to-plant signalling via common mycorrhizal network...

Vegetables and grains you eat could one day be grown with far fewer pesticides if farmers learn t...

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Creating artificial miR2118a/b to boost yield and broad-spectrum re...

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

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PrimeRoot: a cutting-edge technology designed to achieve precise an...

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

climate-adaptation
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Metabolomics-guided engineering of drought-resilient crops: Integra...

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

plant-signaling
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Wearable Plant Electronics Enables Early Detection of Salt Stress b...

Farmers and gardeners who water with tap water or live near coastal areas are unknowingly salt-st...

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Microbial succession from nursery to vineyard highlights the role o...

The bottle of wine on your dinner table may owe its quality—or its shortcomings—to invisible micr...

synthetic-biology
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TargetGAN: A generative AI framework for designing plant core promo...

Crops engineered with these AI-designed genetic switches could be dialed up to resist drought, pe...

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6PPD-Quinone Triggers Oxidative Stress, Metabolic Reprogramming, an...

Tire rubber crumbles off every car on every road, and the toxic chemical it releases is washing i...

plant-signaling
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Perception of a bacterial quorum sensing signal activates a tripart...

Tomatoes, peppers, and other garden crops silently wage wars against bacterial blights every seas...

climate-adaptation
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Climate change and crop resilience: harnessing metabolomics for pre...

The tomatoes, wheat, and corn your food comes from are being pushed toward their stress limits by...

climate-adaptation
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Re-Engineering Resilience: Predictive Pheno-Metabolomics and Machin...

The fruits and vegetables you buy at the grocery store depend on crops bred for yesterday's clima...

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Genome editing generates high oleic soybean and eliminates beany flavors.

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

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First brassinosteroid-based dwarf mutant discovered and characteriz...

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

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CRISPR-Mediated Enhancement of Photosynthetic Efficiency in Oryza sativa

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

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Root Exudate Metabolomics Reveals Phosphorus Acquisition Strategies...

Understanding how lupins unlock phosphorus from soil could lead to crops that need far less chemi...

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Endophytic Fungi in Cannabis sativa Produce Novel Terpene Synthases

Invisible fungi living inside everyday plants — including ones in your garden — may be quietly pr...

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Plant Root Networks Exhibit Small-World Topology

Understanding how roots are wired could help scientists breed crops that find nutrients more effe...

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CRISPR Base Editing Creates Herbicide-Tolerant Rice Without Transge...

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

soil-health
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Biochar-Amended Soils Increase Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Colonization 2.4x

If you add biochar to your garden or raised beds, you could more than double the helpful fungi th...

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Strigolactone Signaling Controls Tillering Response to Phosphorus i...

Understanding how rice controls its own growth in poor soil could help farmers breed varieties th...

crop-improvement
crispr
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The emerging impact of CRISPR and gene editing on global crop improvement.

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

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Rice2035: A decadal vision for rice research and breeding.

Rice on your plate — and global food prices — depends on scientists solving a yield crisis now, b...

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Phenolic acid biosynthesis is associated with deleterious microbiom...

If you grow broccoli, cabbage, kale, or bok choy, clubroot disease can silently devastate your cr...

phytoremediation
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Mechanisms of PFAS uptake and bioaccumulation in plants.

Vegetables and fruits grown in PFAS-contaminated soil — including produce from farms near industr...

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CRISPR/Cas9-Mediated Editing in FAD2 Gene to Enhance Oil Quality in...

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

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Cell-specific transcriptomics and knockout reveal aquaporin functio...

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

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High nitrogen-induced changes in rhizosphere microbial community st...

Same over-fertilizing habits that gardeners and farmers use to grow bigger, greener plants may be...

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Sunflower Pollen and Bumble Bee Health: Mechanisms, Modifiers and T...

Planting sunflowers in your garden or community green space could directly support the health of ...

climate-adaptation
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Alternative splicing and climate-resilient crops.

Vegetables, grains, and fruits you rely on are increasingly threatened by extreme heat and drough...

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Post-Heading High Nighttime Temperature Impairs Grain Protein-Starc...

Rice you eat could become chalkier, gummier, and lower quality as nights get warmer — and this re...

plant-signaling
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γ-Aminobutyric Acid (GABA): Metabolite, Messenger, and Mediator of ...

Understanding how plants naturally manage stress through GABA could lead to crops that survive dr...

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Long-Term Biochar Application Enhances Carbon-Phosphorus Costabiliz...

Rice feeds half the world, and finding a way to grow it while reducing planet-warming methane gas...

climate-adaptation
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Advances in seed omics.

Seeds behind 70% of the food on your plate are under threat from climate change, and this researc...

soil-health
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Beyond Microplastics: How Tire Wear Particles Influence Plant Performance.

Every road, parking lot, and driveway near your garden or local park is a source of tire particle...

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Sweet Potato Gene Clusters Control Anthocyanin Biosynthesis and Lea...

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

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Satellite DNA-targeted CRISPR/Cas9-mediated editing enables chromos...

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

soil-health
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A roadmap for plant-microbiome breeding to enhance plant stress tolerance.

Food on your plate and the plants in your garden could soon be bred not just for yield or taste, ...

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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 ...

crop-improvement
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Transparent Nanophotonic Films with Dynamic Thermoregulation for Bo...

It could make home greenhouses and commercial food production cheaper and greener — imagine a sim...

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RNHL1 phase separation coordinates ethylene and gibberellin signali...

Shorter wheat plants are more resistant to wind and rain damage, meaning farmers lose less of the...

carbon-sequestration
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Molecular approaches to increasing plant root carbon.

Crops growing in farmers' fields and even backyard gardens could one day be quietly pulling carbo...

soil-health
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Root-driven microbiome memory enhances plant disease resistance.

It means the way you grow plants this year — what you plant and where — could be quietly building...

soil-health
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Plant microbiome regulation for sustainable agriculture.

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

phytoremediation
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Erwinia sp. PSI-03 Promotes Plant Growth and Detoxifies Selenite Th...

It could lead to safer, more nutritious vegetables grown in selenium-contaminated soils, reducing...

plant-signaling
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Condense to sense: a new path for plant osmosensing.

Understanding exactly how plants sense drought at the cellular level could lead to crops that sur...

plant-signaling
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Systems-level understanding of plant immune networks through single...

Understanding exactly how plants fight off disease could help scientists engineer crops — like wh...

crispr
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Protoplast-Based Functional Genomics and Genome Editing: Progress, ...

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

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Soil In-situ Enrichment Coupled with RPA-CRISPR/Cas12b for Rapid an...

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

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Field-deployable CRISPR-cas variants for rapid on-site detection of...

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

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Next-generation genome editing: no transgene, no tissue culture.

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

climate-adaptation
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Aquaporins as Natural Stress Integrator: Coordinating Transport, Si...

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

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CRISPR/Cas9-mediated knockout of PsLykX gene of pea (Pisum sativum ...

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

ancient-dna
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The potential of plant palaeogenomic research.

Ancient genetic blueprints being recovered from preserved plant remains could help breed tougher,...

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AI-empowered crop protection against insect-borne diseases.

Citrus on your grocery store shelf and the tomatoes in your garden are under constant threat from...

soil-health
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Global Potential and Trade-Offs of Conservation Tillage for Crop Pr...

Way farmers till the soil in fields near you directly affects the carbon in the air, the health o...

climate-adaptation
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The power of recall: Physiological and epigenetic memory networks i...

Vegetables and grains you eat could soon be bred to naturally withstand the increasingly erratic ...

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Starvation as a weapon in fungal-plant warfare.

Same fungi attacking lab crops also threaten the wheat in your bread, the rice in your pantry, an...

soil-health
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The rhizosphere microbiome as a decentralized immune system.

Health of the soil around your garden plants isn't just background — it may be their first and mo...

climate-adaptation
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Elevated CO

Vegetables and grains you eat are growing in an increasingly CO2-rich atmosphere, which may be qu...

soil-health
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Coevolution of plant-microbe interactions, friend-foe continuum, an...

Microbes living in your garden soil are in a constant, ancient negotiation with your plants — and...

plant-signaling
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Phase separation of the redox sensor RCD1 mediates differential ROS...

Understanding how plants decide when to grow versus when to fight stress could lead to crops that...

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Enhancing tomato fruit sweetness by CRISPR/Cas9-mediated SlVIF gene...

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

soil-health
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What do we know about the seed microbiome?

Tiny microbial hitchhikers inside every seed you plant — or every vegetable you eat — may hold th...

soil-health
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Recent advances in endophyte-mediated biotic and abiotic stress tol...

Beneficial microbes already living inside the plants in your garden and grocery store could soon ...

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OsHMA7 mediates copper transport into the chloroplast to maintain p...

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

soil-health
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Rhizobacteria-Mediated Plant Resilience to Abiotic Stresses: Drough...

The tomatoes, wheat, and vegetables in your garden or on your plate are increasingly threatened b...

crop-improvement
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Nanomaterials for Enhancing Agricultural Stress Resilience.

The tomatoes and wheat behind your next meal could survive droughts and disease outbreaks far bet...

pollinator-health
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Dietary titanium dioxide nanoparticles impair pollinator health: in...

The bumblebees visiting your garden vegetables and wildflowers are being quietly poisoned by an i...

crispr
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Rising Star: Rewriting the Code of Life for the Future of Food.

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

plant-signaling
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Small RNAs as systemic signals in plant defense: mechanisms, challe...

The tomatoes and wheat in your grocery store may soon be protected not by synthetic chemicals, bu...

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Duckweeds: from fundamental biology to a sustainable plant chassis ...

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

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Zn-mobilizing bacteria improve shoot biomass and zinc content in wheat.

The wheat flour in your bread likely contains less zinc than it should — these natural soil bacte...

soil-health
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Microbial damper: Rhizosphere microbiome mitigates stress-induced p...

The microbes living in your garden soil are quietly working to keep your tomatoes both growing vi...

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Rhizosphere microbial shifts drive amygdalin detoxification and jas...

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

crispr
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Synergizing Genome Editing and Artificial Intelligence for Predicti...

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

epigenetics
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The epigenetic set-point: metabolic and redox gating of development...

The vegetables in your garden already use this hidden molecular memory system to decide when to f...

plant-signaling
crop-improvement
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Exploiting plant immune "switches" for resistance engineering.

The tomatoes, wheat, and potatoes in your grocery store are constantly under siege from fungal an...

crop-improvement
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Turbocharging crop breeding with integrated biotechnology for a cli...

The tomatoes, wheat, and corn at your grocery store are quietly running out of genetic tricks to ...

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Biogenic iron oxide nanoparticles synthesized using Trichoderma spp...

Fusarium wilt can silently kill your tomato plants from the roots up, and these naturally-made pa...

circadian-biology
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Time after time: a quarter century of progress in plant circadian biology.

The tomatoes and wheat in your grocery store may soon be bred with better internal clocks, helpin...

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Trichoderma asperellum 152-42 confers resistance to Fusarium root r...

A naturally occurring soil fungus could replace or reduce fungicides on the alfalfa fields that f...

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Tandem MADS-Box Genes FUL2 and MADS1 Form a Regulatory Module to Re...

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

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Plant-microbiome interactions are associated with enhanced salinity...

The rice on your plate likely grew in paddies where invisible soil microbes are quietly helping t...

plant-signaling
climate-adaptation
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Molecular and hormonal regulation of plant responses to waterloggin...

Flooding destroys roughly 20% of global crop yields in wet years, threatening the vegetables, gra...

plant-signaling
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The SPX protein family in plants: from phosphate sensors to multifu...

Farmers apply billions of pounds of phosphorus fertilizer every year to compensate for what plant...

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Targeting a conserved functional motif in the PDS gene enables effi...

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

crispr
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Transposase-Assisted Donor Tethering Boosts Large-Fragment HDR in Plants.

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

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OsMYB306-OsRAV11 Regulates Resistance of Rice to Striped Stem Borer...

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

climate-adaptation
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Hooked hairs: A cellular key adaptation aiding seedling survival in...

The food on your plate may one day require far less synthetic fertilizer to grow, because the mic...

climate-adaptation
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Plant Flavonoids: Biosynthesis, Regulation, and Roles in Biotic and...

Every tomato, strawberry, and cup of green tea owes its stress-fighting chemistry to the same fla...

crispr
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Recent Advances in the Detection of Plant Diseases Based on the CRI...

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

climate-adaptation
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Proanthocyanidins inhibit methane emissions by interacting with met...

The tannin-rich plants already growing in your garden — grapevines, blueberry bushes, apple trees...

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Field-Compatible Detection of

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

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Bacillus subtilis enhances maize yield by restricting cadmium trans...

Cadmium from industrial runoff and certain fertilizers quietly builds up in agricultural soil and...

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The SlWRKY75-SlASDAC Module Regulates Melatonin Levels to Modulate ...

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

soil-health
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Subsurface soil inorganic carbon gains offset half of surface losse...

The dirt beneath your food crops holds as much carbon as all Earth's living plants combined, and ...

soil-health
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Exploration and Confirmation of the Indole-3-Acetic Acid Biosynthet...

Friendly bacteria already living in your garden soil could be supercharged to help your seeds spr...

crispr
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Multiplex gene editing drives revolution in crop breeding: overlaid...

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

soil-health
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Translational microbiomes in agriculture: microbial communities as ...

Invisible communities of microbes living in your garden soil and on plant roots are increasingly ...

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Pineapple peel cellulose based eco-friendly fertilizer nanocomposit...

It means the fertilizers of the future could be made from fruit scraps rather than petrochemicals...

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Challenges in Bringing Pangenome Research Into Breeding: A Case Stu...

Rice feeds more than half the world's population, and these new genetic tools could help breeders...

soil-health
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Root exudate-mediated nutrient exchange in the rhizosphere: multi-e...

Understanding how plant roots 'talk' to soil microbes could lead to farming practices that grow m...

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The improved auxin signalling via entire mutation enhances aluminiu...

Roughly half the world's arable land is too acidic for many crops, and this research points towar...

soil-health
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Plant viruses and the microbiome: a complex network shaping plant h...

Microscopic life in your garden soil and on plant leaves may be the difference between a thriving...

climate-adaptation
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Seed priming approaches for climate-resilient agriculture.

Vegetables, grains, and fruits in your grocery store are increasingly threatened by droughts and ...

soil-health
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Plant Coumarins Modulate Natural Product Biosynthesis in a

It suggests that healthy plants are actively recruiting and directing their microscopic allies in...

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Plant growth-promoting bacteria enhance tomato tolerance against to...

It points toward a compost-based, chemical-free way to protect your tomato crop from one of the m...

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Targeting redundant gene families: A multiplexed, tissue-specific C...

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

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Genotype-Dependent Rhizosphere Microbiome Assembly Improves Potassi...

It means the pears you buy at the grocery store could one day be grown with far less chemical fer...

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Rhizosphere microbiome dynamics and hormonal interactions regulatin...

Same principle — that healthy soil microbes boost plant productivity — applies to your garden: nu...

soil-health
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Quantifying microbiota impact on plant traits for the guidance of b...

Invisible microbial world in your garden soil directly shapes how well your plants grow — and thi...

crop-improvement
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Epitranscriptomic modulations optimize crop traits via messenger RN...

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

crop-improvement
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Brassinosteroid-modified crops: key players for a modern Green Revolution.

Food on your plate — wheat, rice, corn — may soon come from crops engineered to survive droughts,...

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Genetic and epigenetic mechanisms underlying cadmium (Cd) stress re...

Cadmium — a toxic heavy metal from fertilizers, industrial runoff, and polluted soils — quietly a...

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Characterization of Grain Quality and Starch Properties of Rice und...

As climate change brings more frequent droughts and saltier soils to farming regions worldwide, t...

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Sulfide-Infused FeS-Palygorskite Nanohybrid with Redox-Modulating P...

Iron-deficient alkaline soils cover vast stretches of farmland worldwide, and this discovery coul...

plant-signaling
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miR2916-p5 and miR6478 from

Herbs and plants you brew into teas or take as supplements may be doing far more than delivering ...

plant-signaling
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Plant Peptide Hormones: Distinctive Horizons in Plant Development a...

Vegetables in your garden and the wheat in your bread could soon be bred to survive droughts and ...

genomics
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Plant genome assembly and annotation.

Better maps of plant DNA mean scientists can more precisely breed or engineer crops that resist d...

plant-signaling
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Phenolamides: metabolic architects of plant adaptation.

Understanding how plants naturally defend themselves could lead to new, eco-friendly alternatives...

plant-pathogens
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Discovery of Viroids and Viroid-Like RNAs in Plants.

Viroids are responsible for devastating crop diseases worldwide, and finding new ones earlier cou...

crop-improvement
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Antimicrobial peptides: An important link in the game theory betwee...

It could lead to crops that protect themselves from disease without the toxic chemical residues t...

crop-improvement
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Research progress on nucleic acid amplification-based detection tec...

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

climate-adaptation
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Environmental regulation of plant vascular networks.

Understanding how plants rewire their internal transport systems under stress could directly lead...

crop-improvement
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Next-generation nano-bio strategies for sustainable fusarium management.

Fusarium fungus threatens the wheat, corn, and strawberries in your grocery store — and the garde...

plant-signaling
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Communication between chloroplasts and the endoplasmic reticulum in...

Vegetables, grains, and fruits we eat are constantly battling heat waves, drought, and soil stres...

crop-improvement
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Small but mighty: emerging roles of uORFs in plants.

It could lead to vegetables, grains, and fruits that naturally fend off disease and survive harsh...

soil-health
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Microbiome-driven innovations for climate-resilient crop production.

Soil beneath your vegetable garden is teeming with microscopic allies that could soon be the key ...

plant-signaling
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Phytochrome-interacting factors (PIFs): Integrating phytohormone si...

Same molecular switches that tell a tomato when to ripen, a seedling when to reach toward light, ...

mycorrhizal-networks
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Beyond elongation: The multifaceted roles of gibberellins in symbio...

Understanding how plants naturally recruit helpful soil microbes could lead to crops that need le...

mycorrhizal-networks
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Flavonoids, strigolactones, and beyond: scaling plant-arbuscular my...

Understanding why beneficial soil fungi help your vegetables and fruit trees but ignore — or even...

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Cis-regulatory architecture downstream of FLOWERING LOCUS T underli...

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

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An improved Agrobacterium-mediated transformation method for genome...

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

soil-health
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Glutamate facilitates root colonization by plant growth-promoting r...

Understanding what invites beneficial soil bacteria to plant roots could help gardeners and farme...

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Prosystemin-derived signals: bridging leaf microbiome dynamics and ...

It suggests that one day, instead of synthetic pesticides, gardeners and farmers might spray a na...

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Microbial community succession and dynamics during the season-long ...

Understanding the 'good' microbes naturally living on apples could eventually replace or reduce c...

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Leaf Position-Specific Photosynthetic and Metabolic Adaptations Und...

As soil salinity and alkalinity expand due to irrigation and climate change, understanding how cr...

plant-signaling
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Towards an integrated molecular understanding of plant hormones.

Understanding how plant hormones work is the key to growing more food with less water and fewer p...

plant-signaling
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The atomistic Mechanism Underlying Regulation of the GPA1 G Protein...

The tomatoes in your garden and the wheat in your bread respond to drought by releasing a hormone...

plant-signaling
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Stomata as a Defence Nexus: Integrating Drought and Pathogen Stress...

When your tomatoes or roses face a dry spell followed by a fungal outbreak — a scenario becoming ...

soil-health
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Development of a plant growth-promoting bacterial EcoBiome derived ...

The tomatoes, peppers, and herbs in your garden could soon be treated with a soil drench made fro...

crop-improvement
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Growth versus Decline: Root Aging and Plant Performance.

The carrots, wheat, and tomatoes in your food supply depend on healthy roots that keep growing al...

soil-health
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Soil mercury contamination sources, impacts on crops and soil organ...

Vegetables and grains grown in mercury-contaminated soil absorb the metal, meaning it can end up ...

invasive-species
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Transcriptomic and functional analyses uncover a conserved effector...

Invasive plant diseases are quietly reshaping the forests, gardens, and wild spaces around you — ...

climate-adaptation
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Conserved Mechanisms of Plant Lipidome Remodeling under Heat and Co...

Every tomato, wheat grain, and leafy green in your grocery store depends on plants surviving heat...

soil-health
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Nanoparticle-rhizosphere crosstalk: Insights into transformation, m...

Nanoparticles are already being tested in fertilizers and pesticides, so understanding how they m...

climate-adaptation
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Ecological Adaptation Mechanisms Underlying Successful Plant Reproduction.

Every tomato, apple, and grain of wheat on your plate depends on a plant successfully reading its...

climate-adaptation
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Non-coding RNAs as convergent control hubs integrating abiotic and ...

The tomatoes and wheat in your grocery store may soon be bred to withstand both drought and disea...

PubMed → · research article

Multiple origins of the apple seed microbiome: disentangling sexual...

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

crop-improvement
PubMed → · research article

k-mer-based approaches to unlock genebank genomics for targeted cro...

The seeds locked away in genebanks around the world may hold the genetic keys to keeping your fav...

plant-signaling
Europe PMC → · research article

Ferroptosis in plants: Regulatory mechanisms and potential applicat...

Compounds in the fruits, herbs, and vegetables you grow or buy at the market are being studied as...

crop-improvement
PubMed → · research article

WRKY Transcription Factors: Integral Regulators of Defence Response...

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

crispr
PubMed → · research article

Decoding MicroRNA Networks in Plant Vegetative and Reproductive Bra...

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

crispr
PubMed → · research article

Beyond CRISPR/Cas9: emerging genome editing technologies for next-g...

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

PubMed → · research article

GmRPS5 Promoter-Driven CRISPR/LbCas12a Efficiently Generates Soybea...

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

crop-improvement
PubMed → · research article

Accelerating genetic gain through integrated genomic selection in c...

The corn, wheat, and rice that make up most of the world's food supply are under growing threat f...

crop-improvement
PubMed → · research article

Plant Genetic Engineering: Technological Pathways, Application Scen...

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

crop-improvement
PubMed → · research article

Development and Application of Prime Editors for the Induction of S...

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

soil-health
PubMed → · research article

Harnessing the plant microbiome: innovation towards sustainable agr...

The tomatoes and lettuce in your garden are quietly negotiating with billions of soil microbes ri...

soil-health
PubMed → · research article

Integrating soil imaging with spatial omics to uncover root-soil in...

Crops that know how to efficiently hunt for nutrients in uneven soil could feed more people using...

PubMed → · research article

Phosphorus-arsenic interaction mitigates toxicity and accumulation ...

Rice you buy at the grocery store may have been grown in arsenic-contaminated soil, and this rese...

PubMed → · research article

Assessing climate change effects on streamflow and paddy production...

Rice prices at your grocery store are quietly tied to monsoon reliability in South Asia — and thi...

PubMed → · research article

Optimizing wheat development to a range of winter climates.

The bread, pasta, and cereals on your grocery store shelves depend on wheat farmers being able to...

plant-signaling
PubMed → · research article

From pathogen effectors to plant enhancers - Harpin proteins as nov...

Tomatoes, wheat, and other crops you eat could soon be grown with less pesticide and more resilie...

rna-structure
PubMed → · research article

Structure-driven function of plant lncRNAs: conserved RNA architect...

The crops on your dinner plate — wheat, rice, corn — carry millions of tiny RNA molecules that fo...

PubMed → · research article

Molecular basis of delayed leaf senescence induced by short-term tr...

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

nano-agriculture
PubMed → · research article

Carbohydrate-based polymeric nanotechnologies: Chitosan and chitosa...

Tiny particles made from shrimp shells could soon help the tomatoes in your garden — and the crop...

biocontrol
PubMed → · research article

Fusaricidins producing Paenibacillus: a potential biocontrol agent ...

Fruits, vegetables, and grains grown near you could soon require far fewer chemical fungicides, b...

mycotoxin-control
PubMed → · research article

Limitations of traditional mycotoxin control and biotechnological a...

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

plant-bioactives
PubMed → · research article

Effect of plant sterols on intestinal health: a comprehensive revie...

Vegetables, nuts, seeds, and whole grains you already grow and eat are packed with plant sterols ...

crop-improvement
PubMed → · research article

Roles of MADS-box transcription factors in plant responses to abiot...

Same molecular switches that help a tomato plant survive a drought or fight off disease could be ...

PubMed → · research article

Foliar application of citric acid alleviates lead toxicity and enha...

If citric acid — a cheap, food-safe compound — can protect vegetables grown in lead-contaminated ...

plant-signaling
PubMed → · research article

Specialization of independently acquired flagellar FliC proteins in...

Understanding exactly how bacteria sneak past a plant's defenses — or get caught — could lead to ...

crop-improvement
PubMed → · research article

From Waste to Defense: Agro-Industrial Byproducts as Sources of Bio...

Leftovers from making your olive oil, apple juice, or wine could soon help protect the vegetables...

soil-health
PubMed → · research article

Soil health index-based assessment of cadmium ecological risk-ferti...

Vegetables and grains grown in contaminated soils can absorb cadmium, which accumulates in your b...

salt-stress-tolerance
plant-signaling
PubMed → · research article

Influence of sound vibrations on plant holobionts: physiological pa...

Playing sound near your garden or crops might one day be a science-backed way to help roots grow ...

plant-signaling
PubMed → · research article

Plant cell wall remodeling and peptide signaling under abiotic and ...

Every tomato, rose, and oak in your garden is running a sophisticated molecular alarm system righ...

phytoremediation
PubMed → · research article

Endogenous salicylic acid maintains photosynthetic performance and ...

Knowing that plants have a built-in chemical signal that helps them survive heavy-metal-contamina...

phytoremediation
PubMed → · research article

Impacts of arsenic contamination on plants and the role of microalg...

Arsenic quietly enters the vegetables and grains grown in contaminated soil, meaning the food on ...

PubMed → · research article

Successive cultivation under drought selects for specific microbiom...

The wheat in your bread relies on invisible communities of root bacteria to survive dry spells — ...

plant-signaling
PubMed → · research article

Unfolding Plant Defence: Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress Signalling at...

Every tomato blight, rose black spot, and wheat rust that ruins crops or gardens exploits gaps in...

climate-adaptation
plant-signaling
PubMed → · research article

The next frontier: Exploring plant hypoxia sensing and response mec...

Flooding is destroying more harvests every decade as extreme weather increases, and understanding...

PubMed → · research article

TaGα knockout in wheat causes early heading and short organ length,...

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

PubMed → · research article

Arabidopsis Group I Pumilio RNA-binding factors are vital for embry...

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

PubMed → · research article

Continuous recirculation of hydroponic-nutrient solutions shifts ba...

The lettuce in your hydroponic garden or at your local farm stand may be quietly fighting off roo...

soil-health
PubMed → · research article

Live-exudation assisted phytobiome culturomics system (LEAP-CS): a ...

The hidden chemistry your garden plants pump into the soil every day shapes which beneficial bact...

PubMed → · research article

Functional Resistance of Microbiome to Differently Charged Nanoplas...

The plastic fragments washing off your garden mulch, synthetic turf, or nearby roadway are silent...

PubMed → · research article

Unraveling the synergistic effects of Bacillus cereus and different...

The wheat in your bread could soon be grown with far fewer chemical fertilizers — a soil bacteriu...

crispr
PubMed → · research article

Research progress on the regulatory mechanisms of the PSY promoter.

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

perennial-crops
climate-adaptation
PubMed → · research article

Recombination suppression in plant adaptation and speciation.

Understanding how plants lock in survival traits and form new species could help breeders develop...

PubMed → · research article

Harnessing plant growth-promoting bacteria for nanoparticle biosynt...

Same friendly bacteria already living in healthy garden soil could soon be harnessed to protect y...

plant-signaling
PubMed → · research article

The actin cytoskeleton is required to maintain plant cell division ...

Understanding how plants control cell division could help scientists grow crops with stronger ste...

crispr
PubMed → · research article

Enhanced editing of

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

climate-adaptation
PubMed → · research article

Autophagy and stress tolerance in plants: the central role of ATG18...

Understanding how plants cope with stress at the cellular level could lead to hardier crops and g...

soil-health
PubMed → · research article

Genomic signatures in

Right microbes living inside plant roots can help your vegetables grow stronger, resist disease, ...

crop-improvement
PubMed → · research article

Integrated Metabolomic and Transcriptomic Analyses Elucidate Phenol...

Understanding which plant varieties naturally produce the most antioxidants helps breeders develo...

plant-signaling
PubMed → · research article

Biogenesis, features, and functions of coding transcripts-derived s...

Understanding how plants naturally defend themselves at the molecular level could lead to crops t...

crop-improvement
plant-signaling
PubMed → · research article

PKG Drives Metabolic Adaptation and Salt Stress Response Mechanisms...

Rising soil salinity from irrigation and climate change is quietly reducing the productivity of f...

soil-health
PubMed → · research article

Molecular pathways in plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria-plant in...

These beneficial bacteria are already living in the soil of your garden and farm fields — underst...

plant-signaling
PubMed → · research article

3,5-Dicaffeoylquinic Acid Delayed Aging and Promoted Oxidative Stre...

3,5-diCQA is naturally abundant in plants you may already grow or eat — including coffee, articho...

plant-signaling
PubMed → · research article

Hidden players in plant response to sulfur deficit and beyond: insi...

Sulfur is a nutrient that affects the flavor of vegetables like broccoli and garlic, the health o...

soil-health
crop-improvement
PubMed → · research article

Advancing plant DNA barcoding: integrating chloroplast genome seque...

Better plant identification tools mean the herbal supplement or medicinal tea you buy is more lik...

soil-health
PubMed → · research article

Cell walls and their role in the plant root microbiome.

Invisible community of microbes around plant roots directly affects how well your vegetables grow...

PubMed → · research article

Paclitaxel.

Cancer drug in your garden's yew hedge — or the Pacific yew in old-growth forests — is one of med...

crop-improvement
PubMed → · research article

Vacuum and Sonication Treatment Enable Efficient Transient Gene Exp...

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

crop-improvement
PubMed → · research article

Seeds and nanomaterials: seed-assisted synthesis, nanotoxicity, and...

Same seeds you plant in your garden are at the frontier of new technologies that could one day pr...

plant-dna-barcoding
PubMed → · research article

DNA-based identification of plants and the genomic nature of plant ...

Better plant DNA identification means the herbs at your farmers market, the wildflowers in your l...

soil-health
PubMed → · research article

Bacterial Siderophore Production in Metal-Rich Environments: Undere...

Same bacterial molecules that help plants absorb iron in polluted soils could one day be used to ...

PubMed → · research article

A pennycress transparent testa 8 knockout mutant has drastic change...

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

soil-health
PubMed → · research article

Proteomic insights into plant-endophyte interactions: advancing und...

Tiny microbes living inside the plants in your garden, on your farm, or in your local park are al...

soil-health
PubMed → · research article

Plant proteins modulate m

Vegetables and legumes you grow in your garden may do more than just feed you—they could be resha...

soil-health
PubMed → · research article

Metacycloprodigiosin from Rhizosphere

It brings us closer to replacing synthetic fungicides and pesticides with naturally occurring soi...

PubMed → · research article

Revolutionizing sweetness: the multifaceted health benefits of ferm...

If you grow stevia in your garden or use it to sweeten your tea, the way it's processed before it...

soil-health
PubMed → · research article

Synergistic role of microbiologically synthesized nanoparticles and...

It points toward farming methods that could grow more food with fewer chemical inputs, meaning cl...

crop-improvement
PubMed → · research article

Publisher Correction: A genetic module boosts grain yield and nitro...

Corn grown with less fertilizer means lower food costs, reduced chemical runoff into local waterw...

plant-signaling
PubMed → · research article

The mysterious dialogue between the embryo, endosperm, and seed coa...

Signals that seeds send each other during development determine the size of the grains, beans, an...

plant-metabolomics
PubMed → · research article

Mass spectrometry imaging: principles and applications in plant research.

Understanding exactly where healing compounds form inside medicinal plants — or how your garden p...

plant-microbiome
PubMed → · research article

Do stomatal traits modulate leaf microbiome assembly?

Invisible microbial communities living on your garden plants and crops directly affect their heal...

plant-signaling
PubMed → · research article

Assembly of helper NLR resistosome clusters upon activation of a co...

Understanding how plants naturally fight disease could lead to crops that resist infections witho...

soil-health
PubMed → · research article

Microbial consortia interactions and bioremediation of pesticides: ...

Pesticides sprayed on the crops you eat don't just disappear — they linger in soil, affect plant ...

soil-health
PubMed → · research article

Bacterial consortium optimization for improved biological degradati...

It means agricultural waste — the stuff left over after harvests — could be turned into rich comp...

PubMed → · research article

TKC-MC: An Effective Strategy for Generating Heritable Heterozygous...

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

PubMed → · research article

Rhizosphere Microbiome as an Underexplored Resource for Agroecosyst...

Invisible microbial life in your garden soil is what makes your carrots healthy and nutritious, a...

soil-health
PubMed → · research article

Impact of Fire and Heat Stress on Soil Microorganisms: A Review of ...

Invisible world of soil microbes is what keeps your garden fertile — understanding how fire disru...

plant-signaling
PubMed → · research article

Ubiquitin ligases in plant immunity: structural mechanisms and signaling.

Understanding how plants naturally switch their immune systems on and off could lead to crops and...

plant-signaling
PubMed → · research article

Crosstalk and reciprocal regulation between phosphorylation and ubi...

Understanding how plants molecularly 'decide' to fight disease or tolerate drought could lead to ...

plant-signaling
PubMed → · research article

Linking Superoxide Production and Scavenging in Plant Development.

Understanding how plants manage internal stress signals could lead to crops that are more resilie...

plant-signaling
PubMed → · research article

Masters of perception: phosphorylation-dependent signaling in plants.

Understanding how plants detect and react to stress at the molecular level could lead to crops th...

fruit-ripening
PubMed → · research article

Fruit respiration: putting alternative pathways into perspective.

Understanding how fruits manage their internal energy during ripening could lead to longer shelf ...

plant-signaling
PubMed → · research article

NLR receptor subcellular localization and plant immune activation.

Understanding how plants fight disease at the cellular level is directly guiding the development ...

plant-signaling
PubMed → · research article

Integrating plant lipid signaling with its membrane environment.

Understanding how plants fine-tune their stress responses at the molecular level could lead to cr...

natural-product-discovery
PubMed → · research article

plantiSMASH 2.0: improvements to detection, annotation, and priorit...

Herbs, vegetables, and wildflowers around you are chemical factories — and this tool helps scient...

climate-adaptation
PubMed → · research article

CartograPlant: bridging genomic, phenotypic, and environmental data...

Crops in your grocery store, the trees in your local park, and the wildflowers in your garden are...

epigenetics
PubMed → · research article

A plant histone H3.3-specific amino acid safeguards the deposition ...

Understanding the molecular switches that control how plants grow and respond to stress could hel...

plant-signaling
PubMed → · research article

A rapid Agrobacterium rhizogenes-mediated transient expression for ...

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

PubMed → · research article

The rice DEAD-box RNA helicase OseIF4AIIa associates with the CCR4-...

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

insect-plant-interactions
PubMed → · research article

Two Ionotropic Receptor IR75q2 Paralogs Are Complementary in Percep...

Understanding exactly how insects 'smell' the chemicals plants release could lead to smarter, tar...

soil-health
PubMed → · research article

mGem: Applying microbiome therapeutic learnings to next-generation ...

Same scientific advances that gave us cutting-edge probiotic therapies for humans could soon lead...

gut-microbiome
PubMed → · research article

The interplay of plant polysaccharide structure, gut microbiota met...

Vegetables, fruits, and whole grains you grow and eat contain fibers whose exact structure shapes...

PubMed → · research article

Nutrient management modulates lignin accumulation in pomelo fruits:...

If you grow citrus or buy pomelos at the market, the amount of fertilizer used on the soil direct...

PubMed → · research article

Population optimization and solar-thermal allocation were key drive...

Wheat in your bread increasingly faces climate disruptions at planting time, and this research sh...

plant-defense
PubMed → · research article

Structural innovation and flexibility in plant chemical defenses.

The bitter taste in your kale, the scent of your roses, and the itch from nettles all come from t...

crop-improvement
PubMed → · research article

Non-Thermal Plasma Technologies for Plant Virus Inactivation: Sourc...

The tomatoes, cucumbers, and lettuce grown in greenhouses and hydroponic farms near you could soo...

phytoremediation
PubMed → · research article

Effects of exogenous selenium on physiological characteristics and ...

Vegetables grown in cadmium-contaminated soil near industrial areas or heavily fertilized farmlan...

PubMed → · research article

Base editing in rice using nuclease-deactivated CRISPR/Cas-SF01.

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

PubMed → · research article

Targeted multiplex gene knockouts in Lemna minor using CRISPR/Cas9.

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

PubMed → · research article

Heterodimers of the MADS transcription factors GhAGL1 and GhAGL4 mo...

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

plant-signaling
PubMed → · research article

Gas5A, a putative glucanosyltransferase from Botrytis, functions as...

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

crispr
PubMed → · research article

Single-minded regulates larval energy homeostasis in the fall armyw...

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

plant-signaling
PubMed → · research article

From recognition to proteolytic control: NLRs and metacaspases in p...

Every tomato, pepper, and squash in your garden faces constant viral threats, and understanding t...

crop-improvement
PubMed → · research article

Bridging Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning with Green Nanot...

Fungal diseases silently devastate the tomatoes, wheat, and potatoes in farms near you — this res...

soil-health
PubMed → · research article

Halophilic bacteria and archaea in salinity-resilient agriculture: ...

The vegetables and grains at your grocery store increasingly come from soils turning salty due to...

PubMed → · research article

Mapping and Functional Characterization of Homologous Genes AhSUCA0...

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

plant-signaling
PubMed → · research article

Exploring the CeRNA landscape in plants: advances, methods, and challenges.

Better understanding these molecular conversations in plants could help scientists breed crops th...

PubMed → · research article

Synergistic mitigation of lead [Pb(II)] stress in Triticum aestivum...

Wheat grown in soil near old industrial sites or heavily fertilized farmland can absorb lead into...

PubMed → · research article

Evaluation of computational tools for the prediction of CRISPR/SpCa...

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

soil-health
PubMed → · research article

Integrated metagenomic-metabolomic insights into plant-microbe inte...

Tiny chemical signals in garden soil quietly recruit beneficial microbes to plant roots — underst...

greenhouse-technology
PubMed → · research article

LSTM-GRU hybrid model for multi-layer microclimate prediction in so...

Tomatoes and cucumbers growing in your local greenhouse could soon benefit from AI that keeps the...

plant-signaling
PubMed → · research article

A phosphorelay circuit drives extracellular alkalinization in recep...

Tomatoes, peppers, and wheat in farms worldwide rely on this exact molecular alarm system to figh...

bioRxiv → · preprint

Reduced confidence intervals and novel candidate genes for quantita...

The apples at your grocery store or farmers market likely come from orchards drenched in fungicid...

Europe PMC → · research article

Jasmonate regulates male sterility in cucumber.

Cucumber breeders can now target a specific hormonal pathway to engineer male-sterile plants for ...

cell-development
PubMed → · research article

Mechanisms and flexibility in plant asymmetric cell division.

Every vegetable you grow starts as a single fertilized cell, and the precision of those first une...

soil-health
PubMed → · research article

Comparative effects of

Copper buildup in garden and farm soils from fertilizers and fungicides quietly poisons the soil ...

PubMed → · research article

Functional genomics in sugarcane breeding: key challenges and strategies.

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

PubMed → · research article

Microbiome-mediated environmental adaptation in tea plants and its ...

The tea in your morning cup could become scarcer and more expensive as climate change stresses te...

PubMed → · research article

Symbiont dominance and microbiome dysbiosis in wheat-aphid revealed...

The bread on your table depends on wheat, and tiny aphids quietly hijack its microbial ecosystem ...

plant-signaling
Europe PMC → · research article

S<sup>2</sup>-PepAnalyst: A Web Tool for Predicting Pla...

Unlocking the hidden chemical language plants use to coordinate growth and fight stress could dir...

PubMed → · research article

On-site, highly-sensitive and multi-signal detection of cucumber ba...

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

PubMed → · research article

Sugarcane viral diseases: Epidemiology, detection, and advanced bre...

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

climate-adaptation
phytoremediation
PubMed → · research article

Chemical and Biological Interactions of Nano-Selenium in the Rhizos...

Vegetables and grains grown near industrial sites or heavily fertilized fields silently accumulat...

plant-signaling
PubMed → · research article

F-Box Protein-Mediated Proteolytic Regulation of Phenylpropanoid Me...

Same chemical pathways that help a plant fend off a fungal attack also produce the antioxidants i...

soil-health
PubMed → · research article

Long-term localization experiments reveal aging degradation mechani...

Those small plastic-coated fertilizer pellets you spread in your garden or that farmers use on cr...

PubMed → · research article

Synergistic phytohormone crosstalk enhances nickel detoxification, ...

It offers a low-cost, chemical-free toolkit — using plant's own signaling molecules — that farmer...

PubMed → · research article

PCdb: A comprehensive plant genome-editing database integrating sgR...

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

climate-adaptation
PubMed → · research article

Stomatal responses of differently CO2-acclimated plants to natural ...

Every vegetable in your garden is quietly reducing the number of tiny pores on its leaves as atmo...

plant-signaling
PubMed → · research article

Role of Plasmodesmata During Plant-Pathogen Interactions.

Every tomato plant, rose bush, or tree in your yard is quietly waging microscopic battles at its ...

climate-adaptation
PubMed → · research article

The Role of Histone Modifications in Plant Priming and Their Analys...

Hardening seedlings before transplanting them outdoors — a trick experienced gardeners already us...

computational-biology
synthetic-biology
PubMed → · research article

Sustainable production of natural sweeteners through synthetic biology.

The stevia plant in your herb garden takes years to grow and only thrives in certain climates — e...

soil-health
PubMed → · research article

Plant growth promoting traits of selected psychrotolerant bacteria:...

Cold-hardy soil bacteria pulled from fermentation waste could one day replace chemical fertilizer...

plant-signaling
PubMed → · research article

Protective Effects of Orally Administered

It means the plants in your garden or on your plate may carry microscopic healing particles that,...

climate-adaptation
PubMed → · research article

TuATG1-mediated autophagy confers thermotolerance in Tetranychus ur...

Two-spotted spider mites destroy crops and garden plants worldwide, and they're thriving as tempe...

climate-adaptation
PubMed → · research article

Genomic foundations of salt tolerance in desert cyanobacteria.

Understanding how microbes tolerate salt stress at a genetic level is a crucial stepping stone to...

plant-viruses
PubMed → · research article

Expanding insights into plant rhabdovirus diversity through the dis...

Unknown plant viruses can silently devastate crops and garden plants — discovering them is the fi...

phytoremediation
PubMed → · research article

Efficacy of synthesized copper oxide nanoparticles to mitigate chro...

Chromium-contaminated soil from industrial sites can quietly poison the vegetables in community g...

PubMed → · research article

CRISPR/Cas9-mediated editing of the

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

climate-adaptation
PubMed → · research article

The Role of Mathematical Modeling in Plant Abiotic Stress Biology: ...

The wheat, corn, and vegetables feeding you are increasingly failing under record droughts and he...

plant-signaling
PubMed → · research article

Bibliometric-Based Analysis of Global Trends and Collaborative Netw...

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

PubMed → · research article

Neohesperidin from

Citrus peels you might normally toss in the compost bin contain a compound that scientists are ac...

single-cell-genomics
PubMed → · research article

Cross-Species Plant Single-Cell Analysis: Community Challenges and ...

Better crops that survive drought, disease, and a warming climate start with understanding exactl...

plant-signaling
PubMed → · research article

Current directions in plant nitric oxide research.

Understanding how plants use nitric oxide to manage stress could help breeders develop crops that...

plant-signaling
PubMed → · research article

Phytochrome-mediated shade-avoidance responses and its impact on gr...

It explains why densely planted crops or garden beds with tall neighbors often underperform, and ...

PubMed → · research article

Development of a PCR-Cas12a-LFD visual detection system for highly ...

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

synthetic-biology
PubMed → · research article

Green Biosynthesis of Terpenoid-Derived Flavor and Fragrance Compou...

Vanilla, mint, and citrus flavors in your food — and the floral scents in your garden products — ...

plant-signaling
PubMed → · research article

Protocol for isolating plant-derived extracellular vesicles.

Understanding how plants communicate at a microscopic level could lead to breakthroughs in growin...

crop-improvement
PubMed → · research article

BOTany Methods: Accessible Automation for Plant Synthetic Biology.

Making plant genetic research faster and cheaper means scientists can develop better crops, droug...

crop-improvement
PubMed → · research article

Synthesis of Plant-Inspired

Same molecules that make wood strong and vegetables crisp could inspire new biodegradable materia...

crop-improvement
PubMed → · research article

Cryo-Electron Tomography in Plant Biology.

Understanding how plants convert sunlight into energy at the microscopic level could unlock break...

phytoremediation
PubMed → · research article

Genetic engineering to improve resistance against heavy metal stress in

Heavy metals from urban runoff and industrial pollution silently accumulate in the soil and water...

soil-health
PubMed → · research article

Resource recovery from low-rank coal and livestock manure for susta...

Compost that could end up in your garden or on the farms that grow your food might one day be mad...

soil-health
PubMed → · research article

Preservation of Microorganisms and Microbiomes: Methods, Impacts, a...

Invisible microbes living in your garden soil are what make your plants grow — and losing them to...

PubMed → · research article

Flavonoids and polycystic ovary syndrome.

Quercetin in your garden onions, the isoflavones in your homegrown soybeans, and the puerarin in ...

plant-signaling
PubMed → · research article

Insights and applications for understanding the allergology, immuno...

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

crop-improvement
PubMed → · research article

Engineering Plant-Based Platforms for Saccharide Biosynthesis: Prog...

Sugars plants could soon be engineered to produce include ones found in your food, medicines, and...

soil-health
PubMed → · research article

A novel and evolutionarily distinct flavoprotein monooxygenase driv...

Skatole accumulates in manure-treated soils and can stunt plant roots and harm soil microbes — un...

crispr
PubMed → · research article

Advancing the frontier of plant-based therapeutics: critical innova...

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

PubMed → · research article

Comprehensive Analysis of OsENTH Genes and Functional Characterizat...

Understanding how rice pollen works at the genetic level could help breeders develop more reliabl...

crop-improvement
PubMed → · research article

Effects and mechanisms of dietary Osthole (OST) and Tetramethylpyra...

Plant compounds that might sit in your herbal garden could help reduce antibiotic use in seafood ...

PubMed → · research article

Future perspectives in mass spectrometry of plant lipids.

Understanding how plants manage their internal fats could lead to crops that survive droughts bet...

plant-signaling
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Biogenesis, preparation, characterization, therapeutic mechanisms a...

Vegetables and fruits in your garden may contain microscopic healing particles that scientists ar...

sustainable-materials
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Sustainable bioplastics manufacturing from renewable sources.

Bioplastics made from plant materials could replace the plastic mulch films, pots, and packaging ...

gut-microbiome
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Metagenomic insights into the global wild boar faecal microbiome re...

Plant fibers in crops like wheat bran, oat hulls, and vegetable scraps could become far more valu...

climate-adaptation
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Exclosure Enhances Crop Yields and Rural Livelihood Resilience in N...

It shows that giving exhausted, overgrazed land a chance to recover can directly improve the food...

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Unveiling the potential of banana (

Bananas are one of the world's most consumed fruits, and new discoveries about their biology coul...

plant-signaling
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Resolving subcellular sucrose concentrations in plant tissues.

Every tomato, apple, or carrot in your garden is filled with sugar that traveled from leaves to f...

gene-evolution
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Gain, loss, and fusion: ancient and eventful origin of DIVARICATA a...

Understanding the genetic switches that control flower shape and plant growth could help breeders...

soil-health
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Identification of silage bacterial clusters and analysis of their m...

The fermented grass and corn crops stored as silage on farms feed the livestock that produce your...

soil-health
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Whole genome sequence analysis of Methylorubrum thiocyanatum VRI7-A...

Bacteria like this one quietly work in your garden soil, converting sulfur compounds into forms p...

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Calcium-mediated modulation of ultra-low-ester pectin-gluten intera...

The bread you bake or buy could soon be higher in beneficial plant fiber without sacrificing that...

food-safety
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Rigidity-Responsive Fluorescence Polarization Detection of Aflatoxin B

The corn, peanuts, or grain in your pantry could carry invisible mold toxins that cause liver can...

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Methylviologen resistance in loss-of-function mutants of the polyam...

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

pangenomics
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Revisiting tandem duplication in plant genomes: Technical challenge...

The genes that let your tomatoes, wheat, and potatoes fight off blights and rusts often come in s...

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Golden Promise-rapid, a fast-cycling and transformable barley genotype.

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

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Layers to leaves: A suite of modular 3D printed hydroponics compone...

Growing your own leafy greens at home or in a classroom just got cheaper and more flexible — thes...

plant-signaling
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Plant growth and development: Multilayered control of plant development.

Every vegetable and flower in your garden is quietly running a complex internal control system th...

genomics
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T2T-Hub: a central platform for analyzing plant and animal telomere...

Faster, more accurate plant genome maps mean breeders can pinpoint the exact genes behind drought...

biofuel-production
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Nanoparticle-microbe interactions in biofuel fermentation: current ...

Crop residues and garden waste sitting in landfills could be converted into cleaner fuel far more...

crispr
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CRISPR/dCas9-Assisted On-Bead Multiplex Detection (BeadPlex2) for G...

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

plant-based-nutrition
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Addressing Undernutrition in Older Adults with Plant-Based Products.

The beans, lentils, and peas you grow in your garden could be just as effective as meat at keepin...

food-safety
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Radionuclide transfer to vegetables: comparison furrows and sprinkl...

If your water source near an industrial or nuclear site is even slightly contaminated, the way yo...

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WRKY30 negatively regulates lateral root development downstream of ...

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

natural-product-biosynthesis
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Genomic and proteomic analyses of the maize root isolate

Understanding what lives in the root zone of corn — one of the world's most important food crops ...

PubMed → · research article

Citrus-Derived Exosome-like Nanoparticles Attenuate High-Fat Diet-A...

Oranges and lemons growing in your garden — or the citrus you buy at the market — may contain mic...

biological-control
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Multimodal signal-mediated sexual communication in parasitoids: per...

Parasitoid wasps are nature's pest controllers — they lay eggs inside aphids, caterpillars, and o...

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Trending: Alfalfa (Medicago sativa) — 170 observations this week

Alfalfa is a cornerstone of both agriculture and backyard ecosystems — it feeds livestock, fixes ...

fungal-biology
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Dissecting the homeodomain

Fungal diseases destroy roughly 20% of the world's food crops each year, and understanding how fu...

plant-pathology
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Suppression of Hsp90 expression in

Same class of opportunistic pathogens studied here can devastate weakened or stressed plants, and...

plant-cell-biology
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A Journey to Plant Vacuole Biology Research and Beyond.

Every vegetable and fruit you eat depends on plant cells packing away nutrients, water, and waste...

crispr
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Large-scale parallel characterization of RNA-guided nuclease activi...

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

soil-health
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Limited effect of short- to mid-term storage conditions on an Austr...

Invisible viral world living in garden and farm soils influences plant health, nutrient cycling, ...

genomics
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Whole-genomic and transcriptomic analyses elucidate

Genomic studies like this one build the foundational maps that help breeders develop hardier, mor...

crispr
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Literature horizon scan for new scientific data on plants, microorg...

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

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Noni Franklin-Tong.

Same biological 'self-rejection' system that field poppies use to stay genetically diverse is rel...

plant-architecture
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Jill Harrison.

Understanding how plants control their shape and branching could lead to crops that grow more eff...

PubMed → · research article

Microbial metabolism of food allergens determines the severity of I...

It suggests that the microbial community living in our gut and mouth may be quietly protecting pe...

crop-improvement
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Parasitic castration by a viral protein tyrosine phosphatase target...

Parasitic wasps are natural pest controllers used in gardens and farms — understanding how they o...

gut-microbiome
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Effects of diet-modulated gut microbiota and microbial metabolites ...

Fiber-rich, plant-heavy foods you grow and eat in your garden — from leafy greens to legumes — di...

plant-based-diet
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Genetic modification of

Every bottle of coconut-derived soap or lotion on your shelf currently comes at a cost to farmlan...

antimicrobial-resistance
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Combatting multidrug resistance in

Same antibiotic-resistance crisis threatening human medicine also affects the soil bacteria, plan...

plant-derived-medicine
plant-based-diet
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High-protein diets and metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic l...

Plants you grow in your garden — beans, lentils, leafy greens — may be some of the most powerful ...

herbal-medicine
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Uncovering the bidirectional molecular pathway: How shugan wendan d...

It shows that a blend of medicinal herbs — the kind grown and used in traditional gardens for cen...

phytoremediation
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[Biomanufacturing driven by engineered organisms (2026)].

Same AI-guided microbial engineering described here is being applied to develop greener fertilize...

crop-improvement
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PAQman: reference-free ensemble evaluation of long-read genome assemblies.

Better genome quality tools accelerate the sequencing of complex plant genomes — including crops ...

soil-health
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Impact of Pediococcus acidilactici and tylvalosin on porcine Entero...

Pig manure is spread on farm fields as fertilizer, and antibiotic-resistant bacteria from those f...

carbon-metabolism
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Structural, dynamic, and evolutionary determinants of substrate bin...

Every fruit, vegetable, and grain on your plate relies on the same sugar-processing chemistry stu...

crispr
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Polyvalent Guide RNAs Enhance the CRISPR-Mediated Suppression of a ...

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

crop-improvement
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Anthropometry measurements of farm workers using computer vision-ba...

Better-fitting farm machinery reduces injury risk for the people who grow our food, potentially m...

antimicrobial-resistance
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New horizons of nanotechnology-enabled phage therapies for effectiv...

Fire blight devastates apple and pear orchards worldwide, and the same antibiotic-resistance cris...

soil-health
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Genomic atlas of Bifidobacterium infantis and B. longum informs inf...

Fiber-rich, plant-based diets common in lower-income countries shape which gut bacteria babies in...

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