Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a spray-on polymer coating that could help plants resist ...

On a warming planet, your food supply depends on crops that can survive heat, drought and fast spreading disease. Now ...

Q: What can I spray to kill weeds in and around my rose bushes without hurting them?Estelle Cooper, Jefferson A: At a big-box store I recently saw a sprayer that had a conical shield attached to the ...

As more growers implement automated spray boom systems, many questions remain concerning the optimal settings for the equipment. Research scientists investigated the effect of spray application ...

A newly created spray-on formula increases plants' tolerance of cold temperatures by several degrees. The spray, which is not yet commercially available, can improve plants' cold tolerance between 2.2 ...

Scientists have demonstrated that they can use a crop spray to silence genes in plants, rendering the plants resistant to a virus for several weeks. A team at the University of Queensland in Australia ...

In this context, we have investigated the potential use of sheet-like clay nanoparticles, specifically positively charged LDH nanosheets as a dsRNA carrier for prolonged and effective protection ...

Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a spray-on polymer coating that could help plants resist harmful bacterial infections and survive drought. The advance, published in ...