A family in Travis County is racing to save their baby from an ultra-rare genetic disease, while two New World screwworm ...

Global investments in agricultural innovation topped $16bn in 2025, according to a report by Agfunder, a venture-capital company. Of this, $9bn went to new research into boosting farm yields, up from ...

For fifty years, the Ethiopian Biodiversity Institute has protected one of the world’s richest reservoirs of crop diversity while helping shape global debates ...

A High Court judge has ruled that ministers were wrongly advised about their powers to introduce labelling and traceability ...

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Wu's team introduced the two genes into mainstream Chinese corn hybrid varieties after years of field tests, increasing the ...

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Tom Klak, an environmental scientist and American chestnut expert, carried a shovel on the White House lawn on April 24, ...

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Scientists combined 44,000 citizen science photos, experiments, and genetic data to understand how prairie grasses adapt to ...

What began as a mystery beneath North Carolina’s blueberry fields has now been traced to a surprising culprit: a giant ...