If you were going to write a horror story about something in Minnesota, what would you choose as a focus? The newly released ...

Sugar beet is the most important source of sucrose in temperate climates, and—as a root crop—yield heavily depends on genetics as well as on the soil and rhizosphere microbiomes. Bacteria, fungi, and ...

Louise Erdrich ’s “The Mighty Red” was set in a town dependent on beets, with a prominent character whose best thinking occurred while she hauled them in her truck (Erdrich has written about ...