Agriculture
Crop health management for food and nutritional security and soil health
None The relationship between soil organic matter and crop performance deserves closer examination, because it sits at the heart of...
Multimodal AI system tracks shrimp growth and guides smart feeding decisions
In the sprawling industrial shrimp farms of eastern China, where more than 20,000 cubic meters of recirculating water sustain billions...
Advances in detecting and regulating Alternaria toxins in tomato products
A comprehensive new scientific review has brought renewed attention to a class of largely unregulated fungal toxins that are routinely...
Invasive Black Wattle Quietly Rewrites the Chemistry of Zimbabwe’s Mountain Soils
High in the Vumba uplands of eastern Zimbabwe, where Afromontane forests cling to granite-derived slopes between 1,320 and 1,720 meters...
Statistical Model Powers Release of New High-Yield Wheat Variety in Ethiopia
Ethiopian wheat breeders have turned one of the most stubborn problems in agriculture—the fact that a crop variety that thrives...
Why Duroc Pork Turns Tender on the Grill: Fatty Acids Hold the Answer
Every cook knows the frustration: two pork loins, cooked the same way, can emerge from the heat with completely different...
Grape Waste Emerges as Natural Weapon Against Invasive Leucaena Tree
A common residue of winemaking, grape pomace is usually destined for compost heaps or animal feed. Now, a team of...
New Mid-Late Maturing Sugarcane Variety CoH 179 Joins India’s Breeding Pipeline
Sugarcane breeders in northern India have added a new entry to the country’s catalog of improved cane varieties, with the...
Amodal completion enables 3D wheat reconstruction from a single image
Occlusion has long been the stubborn enemy of three-dimensional plant phenotyping. In a wheat field or even in a controlled...
Scientists reveal sugar transporter gene regulation in peony by ABA signals
Tree peony, one of the most celebrated ornamental flowers in the world and a plant of immense commercial value in...
Sweet Potato Weevil Pheromones Offer a Chemical Route to Cleaner Pest Control
The sweet potato weevil, Cylas formicarius, is arguably the most destructive enemy of one of the world’s most important staple...
Industrial Waste and Designer Biochar Join Forces to Rescue the World’s Dying Soils
Soil scientists have long understood that the health of agricultural land rests on a delicate biochemical partnership between sulfur and...
Transfer learning enables a generalizable model for counting crop stands
For generations, farmers have walked their fields in the first weeks of the growing season, stooping to count seedlings row...
Tropical Maize Germplasm Shows Genetic Variation in Silage Nutritional Quality Across Environments
Twenty maize genotypes. Five unforgiving environments. One deceptively simple question: can tropical maize be trusted to deliver consistently nutritious animal...
APSIM and AquaCrop simulations weigh water, nitrogen, and weed effects on yields
When two of the world’s most widely trusted crop simulation engines were asked the same question about feeding sub-Saharan Africa,...
Straw and warming reshape soil carbon formation pathways in paddy fields
In the flooded fields that feed half of humanity, an unexpected subterranean drama is coming into focus. Climate warming, long...
Selection mapping uncovers candidate genes for day-neutral flowering in cotton
For decades, cotton breeders transformed a tropical, sun-calibrated plant into a crop that flowers on schedule anywhere on Earth —...
Engineering Flood-Resilient Crops to Safeguard Global Food Security
When floodwater swallows a rice paddy or a maize field, the crop does not die of drowning in any ordinary...
Sea Lettuce Extract Boosts Color, Antioxidants in Fondant and Meringue
You are the science news desk of a major English-language science magazine. Complete the task immediately. Never ask the reader...
Toxic elements leach from drinking cups depending on material and beverage type
Tea and coffee are among the most beloved beverages on the planet, poured into billions of cups every single day....