Scientists have used CRISPR to give the goldenberry a modern makeover, shrinking the plant by about a third and making it ...

Fruit crops play an essential role in human food consumption, as important sources of vitamins and other micronutrients. The industry around the production of these crops is additionally a key source ...

Plant breeders have always faced a brutal trade-off: the traits that matter most for food security, like drought tolerance or ...

Despite generating over $75B annually, specialty crops face rising costs, weak prices and limited safety nets. Case studies ...

An early spring might sound like a good thing to you and me. An early spring to a Michigan fruit grower is a nightmare. So far, the fruit growers’ nightmares are not coming true. An extremely warm ...

Walk into any grocery store in America and you'll see the same tired fruit selection. Apples from Washington, bananas from ...

Recent updates to the InteliCool cooling monitoring system from Inteligistics increase precooling efficiency up to 33%.

For Trevor Hardy of Brookdale Fruit Farm, flexible irrigation design is the key to managing unpredictable weather, limited ...

Near-record to record cold is coming to Michigan in the next few days. Will Michigan’s fruit crops be damaged by the cold? Christie Apple, an agronomist specializing in fruit crops, has been looking ...

Fruit flies are a nuisance wherever you may be. But growers in California are dealing with an insect problem on a whole other scale. Crops on the West Coast are facing a fruit-fly infestation, thanks ...