Researchers discovered that soil microbes in Kansas carry drought “memories” that affect how plants grow and survive. Native plants showed stronger responses to these microbial legacies than crops ...

Taiwan's agriculture ministry said that gene sequencing confirmed the African swine fever strain found at a Taichung pig farm ...

Bats love to munch on insects like stink bugs and moths. Some farmers are now relying on the mammals for pest control – and ...

Bayer remains a major partner for Ginkgo’s expanded agricultural biologicals platform, which includes the company’s Agriculture Biologicals Research & Development site in West Sacramento. The ...

If a similar mechanism occurs in bTB-infected cattle, it could explain why some infected animals go undetected with the current tests. If key immune genes are epigenetically silenced, those animals ...

A lthough still in its early days, CRISPR has already been called the most powerful scientific tool of the century. Using ...

According to the North Dakota Department of Agriculture, one plant was pulled from a wet/green spot on the outer edges of a ...

A research team has successfully engineered a japonica rice variety using CRISPR/Cas9 to simultaneously optimize plant ...

Plague, leprosy, smallpox and other diseases didn't jump from animals to humans when we thought. Ancient DNA is revealing ...

A scientist at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station used DNA analysis to show the mosquito that spread the disease ...

Researchers have identified molecular mechanisms behind age-related memory decline — and shown they can be reversed.

The arrival of agriculture coincided with a sharp rise in a gene variant that protected against the virus that causes winter ...