genomics

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

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

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

The bread, pasta, and flour in your pantry all depend on wheat crops that are increasingly vulner...

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

Oomycetes cause the kind of plant diseases that rot your tomatoes, wipe out potato crops, and can...

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

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

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

Shorter wheat plants that yield more grain means the bread on your table could become more afford...

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

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

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

Dodder, that orange thread-like tangle strangling plants in your garden beds, and the ghost-like ...

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

Cherry trees lining your neighborhood streets or blooming in your backyard may soon be bred to fl...

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

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

Witchweed and broomrape, the vampires of the plant world, already devastate staple crops across A...

Finger millet, foxtail millet, and their relatives have fed dry-land farmers for millennia — and ...

Rice roots engineered to dig deeper or branch smarter could cut water use on the paddy fields tha...

Roseroot supplements on your pharmacy shelf come from wild plants under pressure in the Himalayas...

Wild roses from Central Asia are the ancestors of many garden roses you grow today, and understan...

Hopbush, a tough drought-tolerant shrub grown in gardens worldwide as a hedge or ornamental, has ...

If you grow raspberries, the genetic markers found here could eventually help breeders release ho...

Wheat varieties bred with these genetic markers could finally deliver flour that behaves consiste...

Kiwifruit vines in waterlogged soils typically die within days — this rootstock survives, and the...

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

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

Bacteria like this one are what allow clover and other legumes in your garden to pull free nitrog...

Sugarcane fields cover more of the Earth's surface than almost any other crop, and making them mo...

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

The same fermentation science behind a great aged cheese also underlies the soil bacteria that br...

Poultry diseases can disrupt local egg and meat supplies, indirectly affecting the cost and avail...