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The U.S. Agency for International Development has been a major supporter of global agriculture research. Now many studies are ...

The science pros at TKOR show how the Mimosa pudica folds its leaves when stimulated.

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Scientists have created a new way to watch plants breathe—live and in high definition—while tracking exactly how much carbon ...

Texas A&M Department of Horticultural Sciences researchers Ahmed Darwish, Lorenzo Rossi, and Andrej Svyantek are reimagining ...

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