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Adding ethanol to soil allows plants to better resist drought – including wheat and rice

Adding ethanol to soil allows plants to better resist drought - including wheat and rice

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Improving crop yields substantially in arid regions by using wax-coated sand to keep soil wet longer

Improving crop yields substantially in arid regions by using wax-coated sand to keep soil wet longer

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Allowing food production to increase despite the ever-increasing temperatures around the world

Allowing food production to increase despite the ever-increasing temperatures around the world

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How about an RNA breakthrough that could bring a 50 percent increase to potato and rice yields?

How about an RNA breakthrough that could bring a 50 percent increase to potato and rice yields?

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A portable raman leaf-clip sensor detects plant stress to maximise crop yield in a sustainable way

A portable raman leaf-clip sensor detects plant stress to maximise crop yield in a sustainable way

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Giving crops the power to resist floods

Giving crops the power to resist floods

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Boosting plant productivity by 27 percent in real-world field conditions – how?

Boosting plant productivity by 27 percent in real-world field conditions - how?

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The decline of bees and other pollinators is officially a risk to crop yields globally

The decline of bees and other pollinators is officially a risk to crop yields globally

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Major improvements in crop production by ramping up photosynthesis?

Major improvements in crop production by ramping up photosynthesis?

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Doubling the amount of grains that a sorghum plant can yield

Doubling the amount of grains that a sorghum plant can yield

Plant scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) and USDA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS), in their search for solutions to global food production challenges, have doubled the... Read more

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Accelerating the process of photosynthesis to increase crop production

Accelerating the process of photosynthesis to increase crop production

Scientists have found how to relieve a bottleneck in the process by which plants transform sunlight into food, which may lead to an increase in crop production. They discovered that producin... Read more

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A fundamental discovery to creating better crops

A fundamental discovery to creating better crops

A team of scientists led by the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have discovered the specific gene that controls an important symbiotic relationship between plants and so... Read more

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Climate change is already affecting global food production

Climate change is already affecting global food production

The world’s top 10 crops —  barley, cassava, maize, oil palm, rapeseed, rice, sorghum, soybean, sugarcane and wheat — supply a combined 83 percent of all calories produced on cropland. Yield... Read more

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More options for sustainably producing more food on less land

More options for sustainably producing more food on less land

An international team is using advanced tools to develop crops that give farmers more options for sustainably producing more food on less land. To do this, thousands of plant prototypes must... Read more

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Crops engineered with a photorespiratory shortcut are 40 percent more productive in real-world agronomic conditions

Crops engineered with a photorespiratory shortcut are 40 percent more productive in real-world agronomic conditions

Plants convert sunlight into energy through photosynthesis; however, most crops on the planet are plagued by a photosynthetic glitch, and to deal with it, evolved an energy-expensive process... Read more

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