More than a third of the world’s corn supply comes from America’s Corn Belt, a region of sprawling grain fields stretching from Nebraska to Ohio. But most of the seed varieties planted in those ...

For generations, farmers saved seeds from their best crops to replant the following season. Today, that practice can lead to ...

Yi Li, professor of horticultural plant breeding biotechnology in the College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources ...

As global trade tensions reshape the flow of agricultural commodities, one of Ohio’s most specialized export markets is ...

Chinechendo Eze is a Nigerian microbiologist and biotechnologist with research focuses on how to genetically engineer crops to enhance growth and resilience. She is a doctoral student and a graduate ...

James D. Watson, an Indiana University alumnus and co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, died Thursday in a hospice center ...

How do regulators address concerns in the court of evidentiary decision making -- and of public opinion -- surrounding ...

Scientists leveraged plants’ built-in regeneration capacity to grow modified plants in weeks instead of months, offering a ...

National Geographic photographer Rena Effendi visited Brazil to document how one family farm is working with nature to ...

The USDA committed legal error by exempting “highly engineered foods,” such as sugar, from being labeled as “bioengineered,” ...

The Smude family is no stranger to starting businesses and they're experts at finding innovative ways to use every part of ...

Seen through a microscope, a cornucopia of common crops offer lessons on new techniques for making agriculture more ...