At the sleepy Kyandula trading centre in Kitui South, a group of women gathers around a specialised posho mill, readying a ...

New CABI-led research using publicly-shared DNA barcodes and citizen science images have provided new evidence on the establishment and spread of a biological control agent used for the control of the ...

Scientists at UC Santa Cruz have completed the first end-to-end genome of the iconic Pacific banana slug, a species ...

I wrote last time about a flowering shrub called pineapple guava, a plant that produces fruit that resemble neither ...

Tuesday midmorning at Dololo Dokatu village in Marsabit. Seeds of Gold meets Qabale Bonaya and Guyo Dida in their banana plantations. The duo cannot hide their excitement about eating the fruits from ...

As the 1960s came to an end, Plant became music’s big ticket event. It is important to consider the likes of Elvis, who came before him when you consider the way he pushed high-pitched hollering into ...

The arrival of the new year brings with it the opportunity to sow seeds indoors for the year ahead. For some plants, including tropical crops like chillies and aubergines, sowing as early as January ...

leveraging regional trade agreements like the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). The manufacturing plant will adopt SKD and CKD standards, enabling assembly and production processes within ...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. (WPIX) – If you’ve ever wondered what rotting flesh smells like, you can take a trip to Brooklyn, New York, to find out. The Amorphophallus gigas, a cousin to the infamous ...

much like the “corpse flower” (aka Amorphophallus titanum), will also “smell like rotting flesh. People watch two blooming plants of the Amorphophallus gigasin the Leiden Botanical Garden in Leiden, ...

It’s during those cold winter days when words like “cabin fever” and “climbing the walls” get thrown around. I knew deep winter had arrived when the first seed catalog showed ... looking for mushrooms ...

The president of Tanzania has confirmed a case of the Marburg virus in the country. Marburg belongs to the same family of illnesses as Ebola and can cause death in up to 88% of cases. President ...