Plant cell culture is "not a replacement, but a complement to conventional agriculture," says Krokos Bio CEO Jacob Lang.

About 9 million years ago, a wild interspecies fling between tomato-like plants and potato relatives in South America gave ...

The potato is one of the world's food staples, first cultivated thousands of years ago in the Andes region of South America ...

A small but enthusiastic group of neuroscientists is exhuming overlooked experiments and performing new ones to explore ...

The potato is one of the most important and delicious crops on the planet. But without a fortunate encounter 9 million years ...

A team of scientists has successfully completed the first gap-free, telomere-to-telomere (T2T) genome assembly for Forsythia ...

An international research team has uncovered that natural interbreeding in the wild between tomato plants and potato-like ...

EU-funded research organisation EIT Food has put forward recommendations for plant-based meat businesses to better market ...

A common plant virus awakens the immune system to fight cancer—and it’s grown using sunlight, soil, and science.

The evolutionary event led to the formation of the tuber, which is the swollen and edible underground root of certain plants, ...

An ancient hybrid of tomatoes and potato-like plants may have given rise to the modern spud, a new study suggests.