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Earthworms are vital for ecosystem services and overall soil health but are threatened by fluorinated pesticide exposure.
Sweetpotato, a critical food crop for millions, has finally had its genetic code fully decoded after decades of mystery.
The lentils now grown in the Canary Islands have a history that stretches back almost 2,000 years on the site. This is shown ...
Roughly 10,000 years ago, humans started shifting from being nomadic hunter-gatherers to building large agricultural ...
Traditionally, plant genomics has grappled with the intricacies of vast and complex datasets, often limited by the specificity of traditional machine learning models and the scarcity of annotated data ...
Researchers have discovered previously unknown antibiotic resistance genes using a new method that is capable of isolating ...
Three new technologies to detect and manage African Swine Fever have been unveiled in the Philippines amid ongoing concerns ...
New research shows that ancient dogs did not join Indigenous people in Central and South America until farming became popular—especially of maize ...
DNA from samples spanning 8,500–1,300 years ago shows how ancient Europeans adapted to the development of early agriculture. Genes underwent significant changes in 14 regions of the genome. For ...
Champaign, Illinois, has developed a method to isolate genes from microbial DNA samples so small that 20,000 of them would ...
McDonald’s said Monday it plans to invest $200 million over the next seven years to promote regenerative agriculture practices on cattle ranches.