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12+ hour, 53+ min ago   (55+ words) As heat waves grow longer and more punishing across the world’s tomato-growing regions, scientists have been racing to understand how this beloved crop copes when temperatures climb past the point of comfort. Now, a team of researchers at Yunnan Agricultural…...

12+ hour, 55+ min ago   (69+ words) A devastating bacterial pathogen that travels inside the bodies of tiny psyllid insects has long puzzled plant scientists: two closely related strains can infect the same tomato plant, yet one leaves it stunted while the other kills it outright. A…...

12+ hour, 55+ min ago   (80+ words) Bacterial wilt, caused by the soil-borne pathogen Ralstonia solanacearum, is one of the most destructive plant diseases in the world, striking tomatoes, potatoes, bananas and hundreds of other crops. Once the bacterium establishes itself in a field, it is notoriously…...

12+ hour, 55+ min ago   (618+ words) Rapeseed, one of the world’s most important oilseed crops and a cornerstone of global vegetable oil production, has long presented growers with a difficult trade-off. Planting more seeds per hectare can raise yield potential and make fields better suited to…...

12+ hour, 55+ min ago   (651+ words) Rice feeds more than half of humanity, yet the crop faces a future in which heat waves and drought increasingly arrive not as separate threats but as simultaneous ones....

13+ hour, 13+ min ago   (598+ words) Maize is one of the hungriest crops on the planet, demanding enormous quantities of nitrogen fertilizer to fill its kernels each season. Yet much of that nitrogen never reaches the grain. It leaks into rivers as nitrate, escapes into the…...

14+ hour, 50+ min ago   (74+ words) Sub-Saharan Africa is running out of time and topsoil. A sweeping new meta-analysis synthesizing 317 peer-reviewed studies published between 2010 and 2025 has delivered the most comprehensive quantitative verdict yet on whether biologically derived inputs and engineered materials can rescue the region’s collapsing…...

15+ hour, 9+ min ago   (587+ words) A team of researchers in China has sequenced the first complete mitochondrial genome of the jumping plant louse Bactericera gobica and, by combining it with nearly every other Triozidae mitogenome available, assembled the most comprehensive genetic dataset ever compiled for…...

15+ hour, 23+ min ago   (91+ words) Global agriculture is locked in a widening battle against pests, pathogens, and invasive species, and a sweeping new review argues that artificial intelligence has moved from a promising experiment to the central organizing technology of modern plant health management. Writing…...