Plant breeding has been continuing for a long time. However innovation – unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), robots, computerized reasoning (AI) and machine learning – is reforming the training.

One fine Hawaiian day in 2015, Geoff Zahn and Anthony Amend set off on an eight-hour hike.

Fast-tracking nature’s design solutions to foster sustainability breakthroughs with the Biomimicry Global Design Challenge.

The word pesticide is misunderstood, nearly to the same extent as the word chemical. People have been led to believe, largely by the organic food industry and environmental activists, that pesticides are unnatural, dangerous, and do not belong in the food supply. But this defies a basic understanding of biology.

The crops we rely on today have been bred over thousands of years to enhance certain characteristics. For example, sweetcorn started life as a wild grass called teosinte.

Most people would agree that invasive plants are unwanted.

South Africa is experiencing a shocking rate of plant extinction with as many as 79 plants disappearing owing largely to expanding agriculture and urbanisation, the Stellenbosch University (SU)  has revealed.

The world’s social and financial systems must undergo a huge transformation to revive the natural world that is vital for human life, a major UN report has concluded.

An army travels on its stomach, and our food supply is also vital to the growth of civilization. If a group of people don’t need to spend as much time growing and producing food, it frees them up to focus on developing other skills.

Two in five of the world’s plant species are at risk of extinction as a result of the destruction of the natural world, according to an international report.

In that sweet spot where forestry meets technology, a Toronto-based startup called Flash Forest is employing aerial drones to plant trees 10 times quicker than a single worker planting with shovels, with a goal of planting a full 1 billion trees by 2028.

People have been using plants in skincare for thousands of years, for cleansing, perfuming, beautifying and healing. Today, plants contribute significantly to the cosmetic (beauty) and cosmeceutical (medicinal) industry, which is worth billions of dollars.

Microbes can affect our health, but humans are not alone in this.

Plants are affected by pollution which comes from a myriad of sources. It could be air pollution, water pollution, land and soil pollution and even light pollution, all of which have adverse effects on plants. This is a detailed explanation of how these pollutants affect plants

In our modern age of biotechnology, new tools are constantly being developed for agricultural improvement.

Plant seeds must travel far to maintain healthy ecosystems.