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New chemical could help reluctant seeds to spring to life

Seeds that would otherwise lie dormant will spring to life with the aid of a new chemical discovered by a UC Riverside-led team.

20 Sep 2021

Research provides novel insight into plant chloroplasts and proteins within

A recent study provides insight into plant chloroplasts and the proteins inside them.

17 Sep 2021

Review compares site-specific nutrient management approach with farmers' fertilization practice

Recently released in the Elsevier journal, Global Food Security, a team of scientists published the first comprehensive systematic review comparing the site-specific nutrient management approach to farmers' practice within smallholder cereal crop production systems in Asia and Africa.

3 Sep 2021

Growing wheat endowed with biological nitrification inhibition raises productivity, quality

An international collaboration has discovered and transferred to elite wheat varieties a wild-grass chromosome segment that causes roots to secrete natural inhibitors of nitrification, offering a way to dial back on heavy fertilizer use for wheat and to reduce the crop's nitrogen leakage into waterways and air, while maintaining or raising its productivity and grain quality, says a new report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

3 Sep 2021

New technique can map out nearly all of the regulatory switches across a maize genome

Getting a full understanding of how genes are regulated is a major goal of scientists worldwide. Now, a Florida State University professor and his research partners have developed a technique that can map out nearly all of the likely regulatory switches across a genome.

16 Aug 2021

Study reveals warmer nights change the rice plant’s biological rhythm

Rice crop yields are being hampered by increasing nighttime temperatures, and a new study sheds light on why.

1 Jul 2021

Novel mechanism helps barley growers attain high yields at high temperature

An international team of researchers has identified a novel mechanism in barley plants, which could help crop growers achieve high yields as temperatures rise.

30 Jun 2021

A new method to efficiently produce biofuels from discarded plant matter

More corn is grown in the United States than any other crop, but we only use a small part of the plant for food and fuel production; once people have harvested the kernels, the inedible leaves, stalks and cobs are left over.

From Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) 28 Jun 2021

How to stop the alarming decline in nature's genetic diversity

AZoLifeSciences speaks to Sean Hoban and Colin Khoury about the decline in natures genetic diversity and how we can work to protect it.

15 Jun 2021

Researchers tap big data to increase the predictive accuracy for wheat yields

The enormous potential of Big Data has already been demonstrated in areas such as financial services and telecommunications.

14 Jun 2021

Drinking straws made of glass or silicone are appropriate alternative to plastic straws

Drinking straws are single use plastic products which will be subjected to a Europe-wide sales ban from 2021 onwards.

2 Jun 2021

Keeping more nitrogen in soil can minimize environmental damage associated with intensive agriculture

Modern-day agriculture faces two major dilemmas: how to produce enough food to feed the growing human population and how to minimize environmental damage associated with intensive agriculture. Keeping more nitrogen in soil as ammonium may be one key way to address both challenges, according to a new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

28 May 2021

Non-specific lipid transfer proteins help improve wheat tolerance

Fusarium Head Blight (FHB), often called scab, is a serious disease of small grain cereals like barley and wheat that affects farmers worldwide.

27 May 2021

Convergence science are needed to prevent plant disease outbreaks

Plant diseases don't stop at national borders and miles of oceans don't prevent their spread, either. That's why plant disease surveillance, improved detection systems, and global predictive disease modeling are necessary to mitigate future disease outbreaks and protect the global food supply, according to a team of researchers in a new commentary published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

24 May 2021

Location is intrinsically linked to nutritional quality of diets, shows research

The amount of nutrients people get from the crops that they eat is a type of 'postcode lottery', according to new research that has analyzed thousands of cereal grains and soils as part of a project to tackle hidden hunger in Malawi and Ethiopia.

20 May 2021

A unique vertical farm can produce 10 times more seed potatoes a year

The pandemic has interfered with production chains in many areas of agriculture, making the restoration of the Russian seed bank a priority of food safety.

14 May 2021

New open-source image library illustrates content on genome-editing and their use in plants

Are you looking for clear, accurate images to bring your content on genome-editing and genetic modification to life? The John Innes Center has launched an open-source image library for journalists, writers and picture editors seeking to illustrate content on these important technologies and their use in plants.

7 May 2021

JIC-CIMMYT collaboration aims to find solutions for the world's wheat farmers and consumers

The John Innes Centre (JIC, UK) and the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) -- two world class wheat research institutes -- have announced a strategic collaboration for joint research, knowledge sharing, and communications to further the global effort to develop the future of wheat.

30 Apr 2021

Grasses steal genetic secrets from other species to speed up evolution

According to a new study, grass crops can bend the laws of evolution by borrowing genes from their neighboring species, thus gaining a competitive benefit.

26 Apr 2021

Study reveals key lipid-binding protein that contributes to cancer

Researchers have discovered how a portion of a protein communicates with a cell’s membrane to control crucial intercellular communications.

21 Apr 2021