Quinoa's history has led to varieties that need specific growing conditions. Research on the plant's flowering genes could make things easier for farmers.

Climate models may underestimate potential crop losses as a result of rising temperatures because they leave out how stressed plants react.

When different kinds of land-use mix—including grassland, forest, urban areas, and bodies of water—the landscape is more productive and stable.

The wounds that insects give plant leaves release antioxidants and makes organic fruits and vegetables healthier for people to eat.

"...it's like sequencing an infant's RNA and analyzing what sort of traits the infant may develop later in life," but for corn.

Genetic modification can keep poplar trees from emitting greenhouse gas into the atmosphere, while not messing with their growth potential.

As more craft breweries emerge around the US, hops may offer new agriculture opportunities for farmers, researchers say.

A scoring system for cattle DNA could help farmers breed fitter, more productive cows. Learning more about how genes affect health could help humans, too.

Stuff that scientists have called the "dark matter" of the genome, or even dismissed as "junk DNA," appears to have played a big role in rice domestication.

Experimental cultivation of the "lost crops" goosefoot and erect knotweed suggests they could have once fed as many indigenous people as maize.