Since 2013, pearl millet, or Mahangu as it is locally known, has been grown by subsistence farmers in many parts of northern Namibia where yields are extremely low because of unreliable and poor ...

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For tens of thousands of years, evolution shaped tomatoes through natural mutations. Then, humans came along. For centuries, we've bred and cherry-picked tomatoes with our preferred traits. Today, ...

Most plants can reproduce both sexually (through flowers and seed) but many important crops, such as potatoes and strawberry, are propagated vegetatively, e.g. through tubers or shoots. A new study of ...

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Mechanical harvesting is replacing labor-intensive hand-plucking to meet global tea production needs. However, many traditional tea cultivars have soft, droopy leaves that break easily during machine ...