Hawaii’s ongoing battle against the coconut rhinoceros beetle reached another flashpoint when the armored pest turned up at a ...

China’s new hybrid rice can preserve its high-yield traits across generations, potentially allowing farmers to replant seeds ...

In late summer, both species of sundew produce tiny flowers, borne on long stems which arise from the centre of the rosette of leaves. Sundews are carnivorous plants which grow in nutrient-poor, ...

NIRC, Rajahmundry, has been awarded the Dr. M.V. Reddi National Award 2026 for his pioneering contributions to rice genetics, ...

The species, Aedes aegypti, is capable of spreading diseases including yellow fever, dengue, chikungunya and Zika virus.

The Knock Out series of roses continues to impress. Originally their claim to fame was their bulletproof ability to stand up ...

One of Hawaii’s major crop seed research and development companies plans to lay off around 76 employees. A subsidiary of Germany-­based pharmaceutical, biotechnology and agriculture company Bayer AG ...

Crop production faces threats from plant pathogens. Traditional disease-resistance breeding relies heavily on natural plant resistance genes that encode immune receptors adapted to particular ...

The European Union adopted new legislation on plants obtained through certain new genomic techniques in June 2026. The new ...

Californian agtech startup NuCicer has introduced Nuchi, a new class of chickpeas with 50% more protein and 25% less fat than ...

Researchers at the University of Connecticut have reported the first successful induction of callus tissue from cannabis ...