The ambitious project, a flagship initiative of Eknath Shinde when he was Maharashtra chief minister, began in February 2023.

Around the world, there are thousands of edible plant species—but you wouldn’t know it from looking at our diets.

MaizeCODE is a genomic project analyzing the genetic basis of maize domestication. Researchers identified key regulatory ...

More than 8,000 farmers in Webuye West Constituency, Bungoma County are set to receive free maize seeds in a bid to enhance food production and improve livelihoods.The initiative, spearheaded through ...

According to the journal Science, Striga ranks among the world's top seven agricultural pests, alongside wheat stem rust, ...

Chinese scientists have identified two key genes responsible for sorghum's resistance to Striga, a parasitic plant that causes significant crop losses. The breakthrough, which also highlights the ...

Plants survive climate change using genetic variations. Scientists studied Marchantia polymorpha to find key adaptation ...

Groups who oppose nuclear power development warn of the lack of knowledge on the ramifications of embracing nuclear.

Thousands of carnivorous and rare tropical plants are hidden inside greenhouses on a dusty Hill Country road. For the first ...

This research challenges numerous assumptions about large-scale monoculture agriculture and how it was thought to be impossible in the Amazon.

ensuring ideal plant-to-plant spacing. The system's performance was evaluated against manually annotated data from 1020 images encompassing 2756 individual maize seedlings collected from farms.