Today's avocado industry, a multi-billion-dollar global enterprise, relies primarily on a single variety: the Hass avocado.

Scientists uncovered ancient avocado remains in a Honduran cave, offering genetic clues that could protect the crop from ...

Scientists uncover how humans cultivated avocado in ancient Honduras, thousands of years before staple crops like maize and ...

THOOTHUKUDI: Forest department officials from Thoothukudi district have sent hair and tissue samples of pigs to Advanced ...

Before settlers brought their dogs to North America, another lineage of canines accompanied farming communities throughout ...

Texas A&M anthropologist Dr. Heather B. Thakar uncovers the 11,000-year history of avocado domestication at El Gigante Rockshelter, revealing how ancient Hondurans shaped the evolution of this ...

Inside Nigeria’s informal workforce, women daily defy odds, ignore health concerns and physical constraints to support their ...

Author response: Reviewer 1: The selection of heavy metal stress as the condition to investigate is not speculative. The elucidation of the genome from the Palomero toluqueño maize landrace revealed ...

China is the largest producer of potatoes in the world, growing over 95 million tonnes each year. Discover the top potato-producing countries, regional varieties, and why this root vegetable is one of ...

Abstract. Maize originated from teosinte parviglumis following a subspeciation event occurred in volcanic regions of Mesoamerica. The elucidation of the phenotypic changes that gave rise to maize have ...

Learn how ancient dogs followed the earliest farmers in Central and South America, and find out why their original lineage is nearly gone today.