Since 1900, farmers have abandoned three out of every four crop varieties in favor of a few standardized strains, according to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization.

Root microbiomes contain microbes that help plants survive times of stress and may potentially improve crop yields in ...

Climate Solutions Three in four crop varieties have gone extinct. You can save the rest in your garden. Seed Savers Exchange’s citizen science project gives gardeners the chance to preserve ...

Avalo, a crop development company based in North Carolina, is using machine learning models to accelerate the creation of new and resilient crop varieties.

At the end of January, more than 200,000 crop varieties from Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East -- drawn from vast seed collections maintained by the Consultative Group on ...

That would have been tempting fate — the first frost — 30 years ago. Jim Teigen switched to corn two years ago on the 2,800 acres he and his son farm here on land his family has worked since 1905.