New crop varieties can help farmers thrive in difficult agricultural conditions, feed families and create livelihoods when sold or processed ...

Tagging products with barcodes for easy price retrieval in supermarkets is now a regular practice that people often take for ...

A review of Phase 2 (2017–2019) of the CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB) has concluded that ...

“Pandemic” has become a household term over the past year, but uncontrolled disease outbreaks do not occur solely in humans ...

Plant breeders are generally looking for heterosis, where the offspring of a cross performs significantly better on some measure than ...

Plants produce thousands of smallish chemical compounds known as metabolites. Like a DNA fingerprint, which offers a portrait of a ...

A new report from the World Resources Institute points to ways in which roots, tubers and bananas are important ingredients ...