Parasitic plants are notorious agricultural pests that drain nutrients from crops and cause economic losses of more than USD ...

Imtiyaz Khanday (left) and Venkatesan Sundaresan photographed with cloned rice plants in a green house on the UC Davis campus in 2018. The team's work on creating rice plants that can produce clones ...

Self-reported perinatal exposures to chemicals or pollutant sources in case–control studies of birth defects may be inaccurate due to misreporting among mothers. In a case–control study of neural tube ...

Producing self-cloning plants requires two key steps. First, the researchers used CRISPR/Cas-9 methods to switch off genes related to meiosis, which ensures that the plant’s egg cells have a full set ...

The accurate measurement of the green fraction (GF), a critical photosynthetic trait in crops, typically relies on RGB image analysis employing segmentation algorithms to identify green pixels within ...

Residents and visitors to two southern Minnesota counties can learn firsthand how farmers there are using cover crops to better their soil. The Winona County Soil & Water Conservation District is ...

The lifting of economic sanctions against Iran has been discussed in the oil sector, but Iran also has designs on increasing its national fertilizer production with the aim of becoming fertilizer self ...

John Deere announces the addition of three new models to its lineup of 8000 Series Self-Propelled Forage Harvesters. These machines offer forage producers more productivity, increased uptime, ...

Parasitic plants cause losses of over a billion dollars in crop losses each year, yet they rarely attack their own roots.