"This project elevates Native culture and voices in a society where Native populations are underrepresented in STEM fields." ...

Using CRISPR, the popular gene-editing tool, scientists bumped up the fruit’s sugar content by 30 percent without sacrificing size or yields.

Today’s mass-produced tomatoes often grow to palm-sized proportions, but their naturally occurring ancestors were far smaller ...

Selection for bigger tomatoes has made the fruits less sweet, but now it has been shown that gene editing can make them sweeter without decreasing yields ...

Rotten tomatoes no more: growing sweeter tomatoes is possible by editing just two of the fruit’s genes. Deleting the genes ...

Pistachios have surged over the past decade to become California's sixth-largest agricultural commodity in value ahead of ...

More recently, a 2020 study of 60 obese males found that the subjects who consumed bread made with sunflower seed flour experienced significant reductions in weight, BMI, total cholesterol ...

More than a third of all tree species worldwide face extinction, threatening ecosystems, plants, animals and economies around the world, experts warned Monday. In all, 38% of trees are at risk ...