and perceive plants. Crop plants in particular play a central role in societies all over the world. Imagine this: an indigenous farmer, living 5000 metres above sea level in Potato Park in the ...

Fungi and Disease in Plants: An Introduction to the Diseases of Field and Plantation Crops, especially those of India and the East. By E. J. Butler. Pp. vi + 547. (Calcutta and Simla: Thacker ...

Officials are hopeful that a policy flip on electric vehicles doesn’t end up undermining plans by General Motors and Samsung SDI to build a $3.5 billion battery plant between South Bend and New ...

Abiotic stresses are considered as a significant factor restricting horticultural crop productivity and quality. Drought stress is a major environmental constraint among the emerging concerns. Plants ...

Wild plants may hold the key to building resilient crops for a world that is increasingly impacted by climate change. As global temperatures rise and weather patterns shift, the search for hardy, ...

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) on Thursday temporarily denied an air quality permit for a concrete crushing facility that has drawn fierce opposition from Fort Bend County ...

Therefore, it has forced scientists to find cheap, effective and environmentally friendly methods to minimize salinity’s impact on crops. One of the best strategies is to use beneficial soil microbes, ...

Knowing what to plant, when, and how–that takes time. And what if you want to branch out, and start raising animals? The learning curve is steep. That’s where we come in. These guides are some of our ...

DEERFIELD, Wis. -- Wisconsinites can be split on whether or not they prefer a snowy winter, and it turns out so can certain plants - crops and lawns. Kevin Shelley's field of winter wheat at ...

In a significant breakthrough, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have discovered where an essential photoreceptor, cryptochrome-1 (CRY1), operates within plant seedling stems. This ...

Drought poses a major threat to global food security, and enhancing the ability of crops ... plants with genetic mutations that block ABA production had shallower root angles and weaker root ...