A centuries-old plant may hold the key to protecting one of America's most valuable vegetables and pave the way for a cleaner, more sustainable food system. Researchers at Washington State University ...

Several varieties of wild spinach that originated in Central Asia show resistance to a destructive soil-borne pathogen that beleaguers growers of spinach seed in the Pacific Northwest -- a finding ...

In Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, Earth’s crops slowly die out one by one, triggering a desperate mission for humanity to find a new home. While that was fiction, the threat of agricultural ...