Lodging, the bending or breakage of cereal crop stems under environmental stresses, remains a formidable challenge to maximising yield and ensuring food security worldwide. Recent advances in genetic ...

The genes that could help the world's crops survive drought, heat, and disease probably already exist. But much of this ...

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions (MPMI), the leading journal for research on plant-pathogen interactions, is pleased to announce the publication of its latest focus issue, “Fine Grain: Molecular, ...

Selection is the main goal of plant breeders and geneticists to genetically improve target traits in cereal crops. Resistance ...

A plant signalling gene has been identified as a promising target for breeding cereal crops to produce a steeper, narrower root system architecture, but with associated yield penalties in barley.

According to GlobalData’s Technology Foresights, which uses over 12,000 patents to analyze innovation intensity for the consumer industry, there are 30+ innovation areas that will shape the future of ...

Bryan Jorgensen of Ideal, South Dakota, says conditions are the worst he's seen in 40 years for the winter wheat crop.

PARIS: Condition of French cereal crops worsened from last week, data from FranceAgriMer showed on Thursday, in ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. — Farmers from southeast Minnesota gathered on the week of July 4 to look at the progress of different cereal crop varieties. University of Minnesota Extension hosted a small grains ...

As Midwest farmers prepare for another growing season, a familiar question is resurfacing across the Corn Belt: when is the ...

Cover crops play an important role in protecting the soil and water when cash crops like corn or soybean are not actively growing. The National Conservation Service promoted the use of cover crops ...