sustainable-agriculture

Understanding how plants recruit helpful soil microbes could lead to farming practices that use f...

Researchers developed an eco-friendly composite hydrogel that delivers fungicide more e...

It means future crops could be bred to feed themselves more efficiently from the soil, potentiall...

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

The tomatoes and peppers in your garden are already releasing invisible chemical signals that sum...

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

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

Half the chemical fertilizer going into wheat fields means less nitrogen runoff polluting the str...

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

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

It could lead to a safe, natural spray or soil treatment that helps your garden cucumbers grow st...

The beans, lentils, and peas you grow or eat could become far more resilient to drought and poor ...

Plants in your garden — like aloe vera — may hold the key to reducing livestock's contribution to...

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

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

It points toward a simple irrigation upgrade — adding tiny gas bubbles to water — that could make...

The corn in your grocery store could one day be grown with far less synthetic fertilizer because ...

Understanding how plants naturally recruit helpful soil microbes could lead to smarter farming pr...

It could lead to more precise, eco-friendly ways to protect crops and boost plant health — meanin...

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

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

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

The spray applied to your grocery store strawberries or backyard tomatoes could soon be made from...

The bag of 'beneficial bacteria' soil amendments at your garden center doesn't just feed your tom...

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

Vegetables and grains you eat are grown in soils increasingly laced with pesticide residues and p...

Fruit scraps destined for the compost bin could become a cheap, natural drought-proofing treatmen...

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

Spider mites and other pest mites can silently devastate your tomatoes, strawberries, and housepl...

The vegetables in your garden depend on billions of soil microbes to break down nutrients into fo...

Heavy metals like lead and cadmium quietly accumulate in vegetable gardens near roads, old indust...

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

Pig farm runoff is one of the leading causes of algae blooms that choke lakes and rivers, and thi...

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

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

Coating seeds with helpful bacteria instead of synthetic fertilizers is a practical path toward f...

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

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

Salt-damaged soil is quietly spreading across farmland worldwide, and turning your city's food wa...

Bacteria living in legume roots do the invisible work of turning air into plant food, potentially...

Quinoa's ability to grow on salty, drought-prone land could soon give smallholder farmers in some...

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

The beans and grasses that feed millions of people in tropical regions can grow without synthetic...

The banana peels and carrot tops you toss in the compost could be quietly solving one of fashion'...

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

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

Textile and industrial dye pollution contaminates rivers and groundwater that irrigate gardens an...

Antibiotic runoff from farms soaks into the soil and waterways you use to grow food, disrupting t...