food productivity

Large-scale aerial scanning can spot devastating diseases to help protect food crops
via Swansea University Large-scale aerial scanning can spot devastating diseases to help protect food crops
A portable raman leaf-clip sensor detects plant stress to maximise crop yield in a sustainable way
via Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology A portable raman leaf-clip sensor detects plant stress
A new modified wheat variety that increases grain production by up to 12 per cent could help tackle global food shortage
via University of York A new modified wheat variety that increases grain production by up
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

How to free up around a fifth of agricultural land globally

Making minor changes to how food is produced, supplied and consumed around the world could

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

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

Cracking the code to regenerate plant tissues

Can epigenetics help us grow food more efficiently and combat global hunger? Plant regeneration can

Biotechnology can rescue the cabbage family globally

An international team identifies the genes that make plants resistant to the pathogen that attacks

What if we could boost the yields of major food crops by almost 50 percent?

Plants such as soybeans and wheat waste between 20 and 50 percent of their energy

New green revolution set to start with speed breeding

Pioneering new technology is set to accelerate the global quest for crop improvement in a

New transgenic strain of rice actually improves yield under drought conditions

Scientists at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS) have developed strains of rice

A simple way to make a benign, more efficient fertilizer that could contribute to a second food revolution

The “Green Revolution” of the ’60s and ’70s has been credited with helping to feed

Greatest threat to global food security could be transformed by an environmentally sustainable alternative to chemicals and pesticides

A University of Queensland team has made a discovery that could help conquer the greatest

Chance Finding Could Transform Food and Biofuel Production

An almost entirely accidental discovery by University of Guelph researchers could transform food and biofuel