Science is one of the three mission mandates of the 4-H program along with healthy living and citizenship. Indiana 4-H offers over 40 projects within the science mission area that are divided into ...

After decades of recording detailed information about different varieties of crops, their traits and the DNA sequences they hold, plant breeders have been waiting for the next innovation: a system ...

ST. LOUIS, MO, December 7, 2022 - Principal Investigator Ivan Baxter, PhD, member, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, will lead a five-year, $16 million multi-institutional project to deepen the ...

Iowa State engineers, left to right, Connor Thorpe and Shan Jiang helped invent the "Flow Guiding Barrel," which improves gene gun performance for the genetic modification of plants. Jiang is holding ...

HOPEWELL, NY — Finger Lakes Community College will be receiving a $1 million grant to support a proposed integrated plant science education complex on its main campus. Empire State Development has ...

Music can reduce stress, boost learning and help alleviate pain. Scientists have studied music and its effects in humans. But what about its effect on plants? Ellis Ramos looked into just that: How do ...

That’s one small stem for a plant, one giant leap for plant science. In a tiny, lab-grown garden, the first seeds ever sown in lunar dirt have sprouted. This small crop, planted in samples returned by ...