If there’s one thing potato plants don’t like, it’s heat. 

Topping the list of Australia’s major crops, wheat is grown on more than half the country’s cropland and is a key export commodity. 

IIASA researchers collaborated with colleagues in Japan to clarify the impacts of stringent climate mitigation policies on food security. 

Wild pigs—a mix of wild boar and domestic swine—are spreading rapidly across Canada, threatening native species such as nesting birds, deer, agricultural crops, and farm livestock, research by the University of Saskatchewan (USask) shows.

As invasive shrubs become more prevalent in U.S. forests, they are creating dense understories that outcompete native plants. 

Researchers at Washington State University have created a new, genetically distinct variety of wheat that’s safer for people with celiac disease, opening the door for new treatments and healing potential for the staple grain.

Since the Agricultural Revolution about 12,000 years ago, humans have been selectively breeding plants with desirable traits such as high grain yield and disease resistance. 

Is one of the world’s most widely used herbicides a danger not only to annoying weeds, but also to honeybees?

Expiration dates on milk could eventually become a thing of the past with new sensor technology from Washington State University scientists.

UK rapeseed growers are losing up to a quarter of their crop yield each year because of temperature rises during an early-winter weather window.