Discover how wild plants could become resilient crops for a warming world, unlocking new potential for food security.

Non-native plants hurt Charleston's animal kingdom and environment. Help sustain the ecosystem by growing native plants like ...

A major study of botanic gardens around the world has revealed their struggles with one fundamental aim: to safeguard the ...

Domesticated plants are those which have been adapted from the wild for human use, often over thousands of years. Around 12-thousand years ago, hunter-gatherer societies began cultivating a wide ...

Crop wild relatives (CWRs) are the wild ancestors and relatives of cultivated crops, and they play a crucial role in agricultural biodiversity and food security. These plants possess genetic ...

The control condition represents good soil and no crowding (representing when humans cultivated the plants and fed and watered them). The other two represent aspects of a wild environment.

IT’S A PLANT. IT’S WILD. THERE IT WAS. REAL WILD RICE. STANDING TALL ABOVE THE CATTAILS IN FAIRYLAND POND, GROWING RIGHT UNDER FOREMAN’S NOSE IN HIS HOMETOWN OF CONCORD. WHO’DA THUNK IT?