What’s the key to growing resilient crops that can survive tough conditions? Researchers at the University of Missouri are getting to the root of it — literally. Researchers in the Walter Gassmann lab ...

There’s not going to be one singular solution to solve the problem of climate change. In reality, it’s going to take a multi-pronged approach encapsulating everything from reducing our individual ...

You walk through a field of wheat, ryegrass, or clover and notice the sway of stems and leaves. What you cannot see is where most of the action happens. Beneath the soil surface, roots spread, compete ...

Dr. Joanne Chory, of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and HHMI, believes she can modify plants to absorb 20 times more CO2. Chory just won a $3 million Breakthrough Science prize. She wants ...

What’s the key to growing resilient crops that can survive tough conditions? Researchers at the University of Missouri are ...