Behind every fresh head of lettuce and pepper on your plate, there’s a team of scientists working tirelessly to protect crops ...

New pests are emerging as serious threats to vegetable crops, requiring growers to adapt their pest management strategies.

robbing corn of its full yield potential. Researchers at the University of Florida have engineered a plant that can handle the stress of that nighttime heat and produce dramatically increased yields.

New research shows how two notorious pests, western and northern corn rootworms, survive cold winters and return the following year to wreak havoc on corn yields. The study is published in Current ...