diff --git a/gnu/packages/cran.scm b/gnu/packages/cran.scm
index 4cff30c092..5448c52330 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/cran.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/cran.scm
@@ -32173,10 +32173,10 @@ (define-public r-bien
         ("r-sf" ,r-sf)
         ("r-sp" ,r-sp)))
     (home-page "https://cran.r-project.org/package=BIEN")
-    (synopsis "Tools for Accessing the BIEN Database")
+    (synopsis "Tools for accessing the BIEN database")
     (description
-"This package provides Tools for Accessing the Botanical Information
-and Ecology Network Database.  The BIEN database contains cleaned and
+     "This package provides tools for accessing the Botanical Information and
+Ecology Network (BIEN) database.  The BIEN database contains cleaned and
 standardized botanical data including occurrence, trait, plot and taxonomic
 data.  This package provides functions that query the BIEN database by
 constructing and executing optimized SQL queries.")