A recent spate of crop biotech breakthroughs presage a New Green Revolution that will boost crop production, shrink agriculture's environmental footprint, help us weather future climate change, and ...

AI-driven plant breeding accelerates trait identification for climate adaptation and food security, but risks inequality and environmental harm. Democratic control of these technologies are vital for ...

Norman Borlaug, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for launching the “Green Revolution” in agriculture that helped curb world hunger, appeared on National Public Radio March 26 to laud genetic ...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - On a fenced plot not far from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's home, a field of mustard is in full yellow bloom, representing his government's reversal of an effective ban ...

UC Davis plant scientist Junli Zhang has discovered genes that would allow high-yielding wheat varieties to better withstand drought conditions. Photo by Trina Kleist, UC Davis. Dwarfing genes in ...

For decades, farmers in the Bouenza Department in southern Republic of Congo relied heavily on subsistence agriculture. Armed with hoes and cultivating small plots of cassava or groundnuts, they ...

Food and nutrition security are major constraints and challenges facing many African countries, including Kenya. Boosting agricultural production requires enhanced crop varieties, effective pest and ...

Six decades after the Green Revolution began, the rise of robotics and artificial intelligence may usher in another agricultural transformation. By enabling farmers to grow more while using fewer ...

With small changes to cellular machinery, researchers may have begun to transform the relationship between plants and the soil. Their new work could help to develop crops that can collaborate with ...