An international team of researchers led by UMD scientists have sequenced the complete genome for einkorn wheat, the world’s first domesticated crop and traced its evolutionary history. 

With nearly 170 million residents, Bangladesh is one of the most densely populated nations in the world. 

The REPLANT Act provides money for the US Forest Service to plant more than a billion trees in the next nine years.

In Africa, climate change impacts are experienced as extreme events like drought and floods.

Many landscapes in the tropics consist of a mosaic of different types of land use.

Research led by the Milner Centre for Evolution at the University of Bath looking at the evolution of terrestrial orchid species has found that global cooling of the climate appears to be the major driving factor in their diversity.

Plant roots have their own thermometer to measure the temperature of the soil around them and they adjust their growth accordingly.

America’s forests have a tough time in store for them. Climate change is increasing temperatures and decreasing moisture levels across the country, not a winning combination for trees.

Every time a stem cell divides, one daughter cell remains a stem cell while the other takes off on its own developmental journey.

Winter cover crops could cut nitrogen pollution in Illinois’ agricultural drainage water up to 30%, according to recent research from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.