On September 18, colleagues, family, and friends gathered to dedicate BTI’s auditorium as the Dr. J. Alan Renwick Auditorium, honoring the pioneering chemical ecologist who spent more than six decades at the Institute.

Modern tomatoes are a breeding success story. Generations of selection have made them bigger, firmer, more productive, and easier to ship. But that progress came at a cost. Domestication and breeding reduced...

Black pod disease destroys up to a quarter of the world's cacao every year, roughly 700,000 metric tons, worth more than $2 billion. The water mold responsible across the Americas is Phytophthora...

A shrub that grows wild in the deserts of the American Southwest could someday replace the latex tapped from rubber trees half a world away — in tires, in surgical gloves, in...

The human body and its gut microbiome produce thousands of small molecules that shape how the body functions—influencing immunity, metabolism, and more. Identifying what those molecules actually are has been one of...

When cold and flu season comes around, we take steps like getting our flu shots and taking immune supplements to strengthen our bodies’ defenses against pathogens. Plants face pathogenic threats, too. Plant...