Are sugar beets the new acai? Starring in two hot novels in the past six months suggests that the Minnesota vegetable is on a hot streak. Louise Erdrich’s “The Mighty Red” was set in a town dependent ...

Medically reviewed by Jamie Johnson, RDN Beetroot (Beta vulgaris L.) is a vibrantly colored root vegetable packed with ...

Now comes the debut novel by Margie Sarsfield, which takes a deeper dive — literally, it turns out — into the species whose scientific name is Beta vulgaris. It’s a horror novel, although ...

A new study has uncovered key genetic factors that influence both biomass and sugar content in sugar beet, a critical crop ...