Adapting a chemical used to deliver medicines through the skin, University of Minnesota Duluth scientist Tom Levar has developed a way to protect plants from browsing by deer and mice by ...

This story appears in the September 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. The Brazilian pepper tree, an invasive plant in the southern United States, is showing great potential in the fight ...

Did a Mississippi man grow the world's tallest pepper plant? Henry Pope, the lead grower and plant geneticist for Mississippi Foundation for Renewable Energy, worked to cross-pollinate specific ...