synthetic-biology

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Periwinkle, henbane, and barberry growing in botanical gardens or hedgerows are quietly running s...

When your tomatoes yellow and drop leaves early in a heat wave or after a pest attack, that's str...

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

Breakthroughs made in humble mosses growing in your garden or a forest floor could soon unlock be...

Pacific yew trees, once stripped from old-growth forests to harvest Taxol bark at the rate of six...

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

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

The same molecular machinery that lets a sunflower stalk stand six feet tall without snapping is ...

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

Many herbal remedies and plant-derived medicines are limited by slow-growing plants, climate, and...

Crops engineered with these tools could be tailored to resist drought, pests, or disease without ...

Bugs and fungi have been quietly reprogramming plants for millions of years — galls, mycorrhizal ...

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

Many of the herbs traditional healers have relied on for centuries — things like licorice and clo...

Arsenic leaching from soil into groundwater ends up in irrigation water, quietly accumulating in ...

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

Street trees in your neighborhood could one day be engineered to glow, replacing electric streetl...

Corn and wheat quietly defend themselves from insects and fungi using built-in chemical shields t...

Every splash of color in your garden's anthocyanins, every waxy leaf surface that sheds rain, and...

Engineered crop plants that sense drought, adjust their own growth, or resist pests without pesti...

Sugar crops like sugarcane demand vast land and freshwater, but microbes that eat sunlight and CO...

Plastic fragments turning up in your garden soil are not inert — they alter microbial communities...

Medicines like VEGF, used in treating eye disease and wound healing, could soon be grown directly...

Algae engineered with sharper gene-editing tools could soon produce the sustainable biofuels and ...

The biodegradable pots and packaging you compost in your garden could soon be grown from fungal t...

Yeast engineered to produce plant-identical oils and fatty acids could quietly replace palm and c...

Plant-based platforms are now being engineered to manufacture life-saving medicines, meaning the ...