Growing gooseberries, currents, and jostaberries is easy to make money on by selling to a local restaurant or making ...

Your next bite of tomatoes and eggplants might be bigger and more flavorful than before – thanks to a groundbreaking study by scientists at the Johns Hopkins University. Researchers at the ...

Scientists have identified new gene modifications that can make tomatoes and eggplants grow bigger, which could help boost ...

Genetic changes that can increase the yield of one crop don’t necessarily work for others, even if they’re close relatives.

About 75% of the world's food comes from 12 plants. Scientists estimate up to 30,000 species are edible. Not only does this bottleneck jeopardize our food supply if a major crop is impacted by drought ...

A compilation of genomes from species in the genus Solanum could help scientists to blend the best aspects of productive staple crops and genetically diverse but under-studied indigenous crops.

CSHL researchers and colleagues around the globe have sequenced dozens of complete genomes for the plant genus that includes ... Instead, it was African eggplant. A tomato relative indigenous ...