About 70% of barley is used for animal feed, but it is also used in beer, whiskey, and food production, with over 170 million tons grown each year. Findings, such as the late-flowering gene mutation, ...

BYU plant and wildlife professors Rick Jellen and Jeff Maughan, together with an international consortium of researchers, ...

Gardening in a changing climate can be a challenge. Join Pam Paulsen, Reno County horticulture agent, to explore practical methods to grow gardens that are resilient to tough growing conditions.

Phytochelatin synthases (PCSs) produce phytochelatins—tiny, cysteine-rich peptides that bind and neutralize toxic metal ions ...

Researchers discovered that soil microbes in Kansas carry drought “memories” that affect how plants grow and survive. Native plants showed stronger responses to these microbial legacies than crops ...

Plants exchange adaptive information, helping them to adjust to environmental challenges. Salt stress in plants, caused by ...

A study appearing in Nature Microbiology analyzes soils sampled across the state of Kansas to determine the importance of ...

Argentinian headquartered GDM announced today it plans to acquire Indiana-headquartered AgReliant Genetics. GDM is a global plant genetics company which claims more than ¼ of the world’s soybean ...

A research team at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology has successfully combined single-cell RNA sequencing ...

We now know just how the earliest land plants, ancient algae, conquered terrestrial Earth hundreds of millions of years ago and laid the (literal) groundwork for all subsequent life. It highlights the ...

Fall foliage is a complicated thing. There’s not one plant gene that controls the entire process. Here's what to know about ...