Food & Agriculture

Scientists have found a plant gene that drives the growth of root hairs, the tiny structures that help plants find water and nutrients in the soil. 

WSU Professor Doug Walsh is one of six scientists who will join the ranks of the prestigious Fellows of the Entomological Society of America this fall.

For more than 20 years, du Toit helped protect many Pacific Northwest crops from diseases. Now, she is the first woman to lead the Department of Plant Pathology as full chair.

The Specialty Crop Climate Change Extension Academy is being funded by a $1.5 million grant to improve agricultural professionals capacity to support climate preparedness.

Few are aware the Palouse⁠ was once swathed in sweeping grasslands like the Great Plains rather than a sea of wheat. Find out more in the fall 2023 issue of Washington State Magazine.

A longtime working relationship between WSU scientist Tom Collins and Jackson Family Wines has evolved into the creation of an endowed professorship that will support wine science research.

WSU will develop a new test that could save wheat growers millions of dollars thanks to a grant from the Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research.

The university’s newest apple variety, WA 64, is a sweet, tart, firmly crisp hybrid of Honeycrisp and Cripps Pink, a variety that includes the well-known Pink Lady®.

A new generation of WSU engineers will learn not only how to build better robots but also how to make them work better with, and for, humans — thanks in part to a $3 million NSF grant.

Without intervention, the colorful but devastating Japanese beetle could make its way across the evergreen state within two decades, according to a study of their potential dispersion.