5 Things to do in the garden this week: Fruit trees. Let’s say you have a deciduous fruit tree that you would like to move to another spot in the garden. As soon as its leaves have completely fallen ...

A multi-institutional collaboration has revealed that α-solanine, a toxic compound found in potato plants, is a divergent of the bitter-tasting α-tomatine, which is found in tomato plants. The ...

The humble modern-day potato, first domesticated about 10,000 years ago, got its start in the Andes mountains before becoming a key crop the world depends on. But because plants don’t preserve well in ...