UTA investigates crowd logistics program to move crops, livestock from farm to market
Designing an Uber for agricultureCredit: UT Arlington An expert in logistics at The University of Texas at Arlington is designing ...
Tag: Agricultural Production/Economics
Plant flowering in low-nitrogen soils: A mechanism revealed
Credit: Takeo Sato Scientists from Japan, Europe and the USA have described a pathway leading to the accelerated flowering of ...
Scientists call for international investment to tackle major wheat losses
Credit: John Innes Centre Urgent investment in new tools is needed to address major global losses of wheat crops which ...
Scientists discover a protein that naturally enhances wheat resistance to head scab
Credit: John McLaughlin Fusarium Head Blight (FHB), also known as scab, is a significant disease of small grain cereals, such ...
Immune function of small chloroplasts in the epidermal cells of plants
Credit: HIROKI IRIEDA, SHINSHU UNIVERSITY It is said that 10 to 15% of the world's agricultural production loss is caused ...
Food scraps get a bold new life
Credit: Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan - Most people don't think much about the food ...
Innovative Food Systems Solutions portal launch: Healthy diets for all on a healthy planet
Explore and contribute to the IFSS portal and connect to the global community working to ensure sustainable and resilient food ...
New mechanism to control tomato ripening discovered
It opens the door to producing tomatoes of a higher commercial and nutritional qualityCredit: UPV An international research group involving ...
Biodiversity devastation: Human-driven decline requires millions of years of recovery
Credit: C. Albrecht (JLU) A new study shows that the current rate of biodiversity decline in freshwater ecosystems outcompetes that ...
Invasive alien species cost Africa’s agricultural sector estimated $3.6 trillion a year
CABI scientists have conducted the first comprehensive study on the economic impact of a range of Invasive Alien Species (IAS) ...
Soy kits provide earning power for women entrepreneurs in Malawi
Credit: Photo: Maggie Mzungu. URBANA, Ill. - Women's ability to work as entrepreneurs can help alleviate poverty and malnutrition in ...
Half of Guadeloupe’s snakes and lizards went extinct after European colonization
Researchers use fossil data to reveal the primary drivers and extent of colonial era extinctionsCredit: Photo by Omkar Vinchu from ...
Long search finds grain of hope in the glume
Credit: John Innes Centre Researchers have found the elusive genetic element controlling the elongated grains and glumes of a wheat ...
Digital precision agriculture tool helps Nepalese rice farmers breakthrough yield barriers
Credit: © Amgain Lal Prasad Rice farmers in Nepal are chronically falling short of their potential productivity. Poor rice yields ...
Mapping the Midwest’s soil topography
Credit: Iowa State University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences AMES, Iowa - Climate change and soil erosion feed into ...
New peanut has a wild past and domesticated present
Researchers dig into the past to create new varieties to improve productionCredit: Andrew Davis Tucker/UGA The wild relatives of modern ...
Iran’s groundwater depletion is reaching crisis levels, warn Concordia researchers
Ali Nazemi and Samaneh Ashraf say nations like Canada must learn from the country's calamitous overexploitation of its aquifersCredit: Concordia ...
In search of drought-tolerant holm oaks
Credit: University of Córdoba A research group at the University of Córdoba studied the molecular properties of the holm oak ...
Discovery increases likelihood of growing food despite drought
Genes to keep plants greenCredit: Siobhan Brady/UC Davis University of California scientists have discovered genetic data that will help food ...
Turn problems into opportunities: Photorespiration for improved plant metabolism
Researchers from the EU-funded Gain4Crops project have now succeeded in engineering a solution that connects photorespiration and C4 metabolism, two ...