At 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday, March 17, farmers and consumers from cassava-growing districts gathered in a hall at the Rubona Agricultural Research Station in Huye District for a sensory evaluation of six ...

Zinnias are one of the easiest flowers to grow, but that doesn't mean they have to be boring. These types show the true range ...

Resurrect Bio and Corteva partner to restore corn’s natural disease resistance using AI-driven genetic discovery and screening tools.

Researchers have uncovered a molecular trick used by hornwort plants that could help future crops capture carbon dioxide more ...

Few drugs have entered mainstream awareness as quickly or as dramatically as glucagon-like peptide-1, or GLP-1 receptor ...

Plants have an immune system, like people, and when it is triggered by threats like disease or pests, a plant's defenses are activated. But there's a downside to this protective mechanism: the plant's ...

Micropropagation is an important method within plant biotechnology, allowing the bulk multiplication of high-quality, disease-free plants to occur; however, micropropagation faces several challenges, ...

HotHouse Therapeutics has emerged from stealth with a little over $3 million in preseed funding. The start-up, based in Norwich, England, mixes artificial intelligence and synthetic biology to ...

A new scientific review argues that papain, the signature enzyme from papaya, could power a new wave of medicines and biotech tools. The central claim is simple, one familiar fruit hosts an enzyme ...

A research team has created gene-edited crops without using tissue culture. A team of plant biotechnologists led by Gunvant Patil at Texas Tech University (TX, USA) has developed a groundbreaking ...

A study reviews the classification and functions of all known groups of plant hormones in the plant world, which are key molecules in plant life and have diverse applications in agriculture and plant ...