food productivity

Improved crop performance with new simple biotechnology

Farmers can use fewer resources to grow food With the world’s population exploding to well

Enzymes with the potential to increase wheat yields

Wheat yields could be significantly increased thanks to varieties with a superior form of a

Food or fuel? How about both?

In the United States, federal mandates to produce more renewable fuels, especially biofuels, have led

Photo by L. Brian Stauffer Professors Praveen Kumar, left, and Stephen Long developed a computer modeling system to help plant scientists breed soybean crops that produce more and use less water.
Scientists say new computer model amounts to a lot more than a hill of beans

The model predicts a design for a soybean crop with 8.5 percent more productivity but

cropping frequency
Increasing cropping frequency offers opportunity to boost food supply

More frequent harvest could substantially boost global food production on existing agricultural lands Harvesting existing

Now This Is Natural Food

At 77, Jackson is a big man with big ideas. A few weeks ago at

Brazil Faces Drop in Crop Productivity

One of the world’s major producers of food needs to adapt its farming practices for

Report proposes microbiology’s grand challenge to help feed the world

A greater focus on the role of microbiology in agriculture combined with new technologies can

Can Farming Provide a Solution to Climate Change?

Farming is one of the few human activities that can pull CO2 from the atmosphere