I recently went looking for one of the rarest of Texas’s rare plants in what seemed like an odd place: near the middle of ...

Two California startups — BeeHero and Beewise — each teamed up with beekeepers to create pollination companies that market ...

We would have to work so hard, but receive little.” Indigenous communities around the world are losing the crops their ...

Agricultural experts say that supporting the use of traditional seeds, also known as heirloom varieties, could minimize the ...

Getting zapped with millions of volts of electricity may not sound like a healthy activity, but for some trees, it is. A new study, published in New Phytologist, reports that some tropical tree ...

The iconic Cape Verde date palm came from commercial trees gone feral and could provide genetic variety to boost the resilience of its tamer relatives.

Invasive trees are a threat to rangelands. Early detection is key to rapid response in managing them. The tamarisk tree is ...

Growing up in the mountains of western Guatemala, Feliciano Perez Tomas cultivated the same type of native maize his family ...

The tree has several distinct features to help identify it. Size: Tree-of-heaven has rapid growth ... The twigs easily break to expose the large, spongy, brown center, or pith. Seeds: Seeds on female ...

Gene banks are like a survivalist cache: our nation’s safeguard against all future challenges to growing the food we need.

By choosing suitable replacements for the plants that are problems, we can save trouble in the garden and help protect our ...

For a more resilient and climate-proof Philippines in the future, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) ...