Gardening potatoes is a new challenge to take on! Here are some tips for growing potatoes in your home garden.

Imagine if a plant in a farmer's field could warn a grower that it needs water? Or if a farmer could signal to plants that ...

Jamaica earned US$40.8 million, or roughly $6.7 billion in local currency, from the export of yam in 2023, as reported in the ...

A company in the Netherlands says it has perfected a way to create "graft chimeras" with the skin of one plant and the innards of another ...

One of my students posed the question, “Why does tradition suggest that we should plant our seed potatoes on Good Friday?” ...

Plant breeding plays a vital role in ensuring global food security by increasing crop yields, improving nutritional quality ...

This system of mutual aid [forges] social bonds while ensuring food autonomy, [and] has been a response to crises – climatic, ...

Yam plants grown using pigeon peas as stakes in Ghana. Image courtesy of Eric Owusu Danquah/CSIR. Asrat Amele is a yam breeder at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA ...

This somewhat quirky “pee as plant food” study out of Spain can be seen as a prototype for how buildings can close their own ...

Congressman Troy Carter, D-New Orleans, held meetings with farmers across his district and voiced support for a farm bill ...

Picking a spot that matters to you is first step to eradicating invasive species from the environment to ensure state’s rare ...