A new discovery by scientists could help protect crop production and reduce plant mortality due to drought, which accounts for a quarter of U.S. crop production losses. Water is essential for plants ...

A farmer harvests millet at Ngaru village in Kirinyaga County. Many have switched to grow millet and not maize due to pest attacks. PICTURE: MUGUCIA RUGENE. Farmers in Kirinyaga have now turned to ...

ST. LOUIS, MO -- For years, Elizabeth (Toby) Kellogg, PhD, member and Robert E. King Distinguished Investigator and other researchers at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center (Danforth Center) ...

Although it is one of the best means for sustaining life in the most desolate and difficult parts of the farming world, pearl millet also grows well under pampered conditions—under irrigation and in ...

For years, Elizabeth (Toby) Kellogg, Ph.D., member and Robert E. King Distinguished Investigator and other researchers at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center (Danforth Center) drove up and down ...

Researchers generated genome sequences for nearly 600 green millet plants and released a very high-quality reference S. viridis genome sequence and also identified a gene related to seed dispersal in ...