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Tissue Succulence Engineering Method can Prove Useful for Food and Bioenergy Crops

After several years of experimentation, scientists have engineered thale cress, or Arabidopsis thaliana, to behave like a succulent, improving water-use efficiency, salinity tolerance and reducing the effects of drought.

1 Jul 2020

New Findings on Plant Processes may Lead to Increased Crop Yields

University of East Anglia scientists have helped find a way to control different plant processes - such as when they grow - using nothing but coloured light.

30 Jun 2020

New Sensor Monitors Fruits , Vegetables by Continuously Detecting Ethylene Gas

NIMS and AIST have developed a small sensor capable of continuously monitoring the plant hormone ethylene.

30 Jun 2020

Study Shows Land-Clearing has Degraded Weather in the Brazilian Cerrado

Brazil is one of the top three producers of both soy and corn globally, and its agricultural sector accounts for one-fifth of the country's economy.

30 Jun 2020

Light Environment Changes can Help Boost Crop Yield

The crops we grow in the field often form dense canopies with many overlapping leaves, such that young "sun leaves" at the top of the canopy are exposed to full sunlight with older "shade leaves" at the bottom.

25 Jun 2020

Coronavirus Pandemic Could Lead to Food Crises in Many Parts of the World

Global food production is incredibly efficient, and the world's farmers produce enough to feed the global population.

22 Jun 2020

Soil Conservation can Improve Air and Water Quality

In some ways, farming is like cooking. Cooking would be much easier if we could leave the kitchen after eating and not come back until we make the next meal.

17 Jun 2020

Agroforestry can Produce More Food in Environmentally, Sustainable Way

Planting woody plant species alongside crops could double the number of insect pollinators helping farmers produce food, new research has demonstrated for the first time.

17 Jun 2020

Diversity of Aquaporins is Key to Develop Food Crops with Bigger Yields

Scientists have shed new light on how the network of gatekeepers that controls the traffic in and out of plant cells works, which researchers believe is key to develop food crops with bigger yields and greater ability to cope with extreme environments.

15 Jun 2020

Study Shows How Population Change Impacts Food Production Across Sub-Saharan Africa

In order to reveal the population interactions that gave rise to Africa's enormous linguistic, cultural, and economic diversity, an interdisciplinary team of researchers from Africa, Europe, and North America sampled key regions in which current models predict a legacy of significant population interactions.

15 Jun 2020