Cover crops and green manures are unsung heroes of the garden. Cover crops are sown to help increase the soil's tilth (its textural quality, organic content and water-holding capacity); smother weeds; ...

A major agricultural pest, the moth Helicoverpa zea and its caterpillar go by many common names, depending on the crop they feed on: shown here is a "corn earworm." (Image: Jose Roberto Peruca) Most ...

Grow a salt-tolerant, oil-seed, multi-use crop on saline land or dry land that can be irrigated with brackish water or seawater, thus freeing fresh water and high quality soil for food and feed and ...

Crops bred to thrive in single-crop settings begin adapting to growing in multispecies environments over just two generations, shows a new study. The findings provide preliminary evidence about how ...

A strategy widely used to prevent pests from quickly adapting to crop-protecting toxins may fail in some cases unless better preventive actions are taken, suggests new research by University of ...