disease-resistance

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cassava feeds over 800 million people worldwide, and this discovery could lead to disease-resista...

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

Wheat rust diseases can wipe out entire harvests, and the bread on your table depends on breeders...

The potatoes in your grocery store are increasingly grown under water-stressed conditions, and th...

It could lead to tomatoes that stay fresh on your counter or in stores for much longer without go...

Tomatoes engineered with a tweak to their microbial-partnership genes could grow with stronger bu...

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

The canola oil in your kitchen and the rapeseed fields across farming regions are under constant ...

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

Disease resistance genes — the ones that determine whether your tomatoes survive late blight or y...

Understanding exactly how plants switch on their immune systems could soon lead to tomatoes, whea...

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

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

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

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

Crops bred with this molecular switch tuned up could hold their disease defenses on a scorching J...

The sesame seeds in your tahini and hummus come from plants increasingly threatened by a soil fun...

Apple trees in backyard orchards and community food forests spend enormous energy fending off fun...

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

Wheat fields that can mount a whole-plant immune response after a single infected stem could need...

The soil beneath a wheat field is a living battlefield, and some wheat varieties win by recruitin...

If you've ever grown potatoes and watched the leaves suddenly turn brown and collapse seemingly o...

Choosing the right rootstock when planting or grafting grapevines can give the whole plant a buil...

Every tomato plant that fights off a blight, every rose that survives an aphid wave, and every oa...

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

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

The soil in a garden bed that's fought off root rot for several seasons may quietly be assembling...

Soft rot bacteria silently devastate vegetable gardens every summer, turning healthy stems to mus...

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

Wheat rust and other fungal blights can wipe out entire fields in weeks — understanding exactly h...

Aspirin's plant cousin — salicylic acid — turns out to work like a doorbell on the outside of pla...

Every tomato plant that survives a fungal attack without spreading the infection to its neighbors...

Every tomato blight, rose black spot, or squash vine borer you've battled may be winning partly b...

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

The microbial community living on and around your garden plants — shaped by your soil health, wat...

Every dry bean in your pantry — black, pinto, kidney — exists because plant breeders have been ra...

Powdery mildew is the chalky white coating that kills your pea and bean plants mid-summer — under...

Garlic bulbs rotting in storage or collapsing as seedlings can wipe out an entire season's harves...

Every tomato plant that rots from bacterial speck, every basil that wilts from blight, loses to t...

Grass pea survives droughts that kill chickpeas and lentils, making it a lifeline crop in regions...

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