Tag: Food/Food Science

Research team investigates influence of different mass-flowering crops on pollinatorsCredit: N Beyer Mass-flowering crops such as oilseed rape or faba ...

An affordable lab system that uses grass blades to turn cells into cultured meat has been developed at the University ...

Genetic technique edits every chloroplast in a plant, but does not change nuclear DNA of offspringCredit: Image by Hiroko Uchida ...

Research should improve long-term cold storage of everything from foods to medicines Have you ever wondered why ice grows 'out ...

Scientists have discovered how plants manage to live alongside each other in places that are dark and shady. Moderate shade ...

An international team of researchers has identified a novel mechanism in barley plants, which could help crop growers achieve high ...

The world's human population is expanding, which means even more agricultural land will be needed to provide food for this ...

Smithsonian conservation research brief Did you know chocolate comes from cocoa beans grown in some of the most biodiverse tropical ...

Over the last decade, severe outbreaks of bacterial canker have caused huge economic losses for kiwi growers, especially in Italy, ...

With age, a diet lacking in the essential amino acid tryptophan -- which has a key role in our mood, ...

The Alliance-managed website MusaNet collects and shares global resources on banana (Musa) across the whole value chain - from collecting ...

A revolutionary approach to nourishing 10 billion people on a hotter planet without destroying the ecosystems on which we all ...

As the saying goes, an apple a day keeps the doctor away. But what's the key to growing a quality ...

Field trials investigating healthy compounds in agronomically important brassica crops have underlined the "immense potential" of gene editing technology, say ...

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) and The Good Food Institute Asia Pacific (GFI APAC), a global nonprofit headquartered in ...

Films made of shellfish shells, essential oils, and nanoparticles to protect fruit from microbes Québec produces more strawberries than any ...

A plant-based diet appears to afford significant protection to rats bred to become hypertensive on a high-salt diet, scientists report. ...

Plants are constantly exposed to microbes: pathogens that cause disease, commensals that cause no harm or benefit, and mutualists that ...

Researchers from CRAG and IRTA find the gene that determines Japanese plum skin colour due to the presence or absence ...

Greenhouse gases from food production are systematically underestimated, researchers say A new global analysis says that greenhouse-gas emissions from food ...