Risks that pertain to all manner of new crops are often misattributed to genetic engineering. This distorts the public’s view of the technology.

Bumblebee colonies grow poorly in landscapes dominated by maize, researchers find.

A case in which the University of Florida killed birds to protect crop research raises questions on the ethics of field studies’ potential side effects.

The 20-year project calls into question the conventional wisdom about the role plants will play in mitigating future climate change.

It has become increasingly evident that, like animals, plants are not autonomous organisms but rather are populated by a cornucopia of diverse microorganisms.

The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center researcher links complex traits to the genes that underlie them.