Seeds provide most of the calories humanity eats, yet the cells that decide how big each seed becomes have remained a mystery ...

The farm is surrounded by land that grows wheat, barley, rye, alafala and maize. The digester uses slurry, crops and other ...

With readily available cow dung, sheep and goat manure, the farmers make compost manure enough for their crops ...

You may know them as Alvin’s little friends who love to sing in the movie Alvin and the Chipmunks, but in reality, chipmunks really love to chirp and use their harmony to communicate with each other.

Gene editing techniques and maize genetic material may be the seed for more robust and stress tolerant canola plants. Canadian research is trying to make it happen.

Nestled within the larger Mau Forest Complex in Kenya’s Central Rift Valley, the Eburu Forest, is a vital ecological zone.

Alcohol has been a part of human civilization for thousands of years, with evidence dating as far back as 7000–6600 […] ...

A team that includes Rutgers University-New Brunswick scientists has unlocked some of the secrets of corn DNA, revealing how ...

As part of the campaign, the panchayat has announced free distribution of maize seeds to farmers willing to forgo paddy transplantation. Around 8-9 kg of seed is required per acre, costing ...

For the first of these tasks Dr Baker and his colleagues use RF diffusion, an AI model they have developed to predict a ...

Within one year, a maize and sorghum cooperative of 20 members in the Central Equatorial State of South Sudan had grown to ...

In this new series, Human, paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi reveals our incredible story across 300,000 years of human ...