Good food in a nice setting: wild bees need diverse agricultural landscapes
Research team investigates influence of different mass-flowering crops on pollinatorsCredit: N Beyer Mass-flowering crops such as oilseed rape or faba ...
Tag: Food/Food Science
From meadow to plate: The cultured meat that replaces animals with grass
An affordable lab system that uses grass blades to turn cells into cultured meat has been developed at the University ...
New approach can add diversity to crop species without breeding GMOs
Genetic technique edits every chloroplast in a plant, but does not change nuclear DNA of offspringCredit: Image by Hiroko Uchida ...
Study seeks to understand, prevent ice recrystalization
Research should improve long-term cold storage of everything from foods to medicinesCredit: Photo by V. Dia, courtesy UTIA. Have you ...
How plants become good neighbors in times of stress
Credit: Pexels Scientists have discovered how plants manage to live alongside each other in places that are dark and shady. ...
New findings to boost barley yields at higher temps
Credit: The University of Adelaide An international team of researchers has identified a novel mechanism in barley plants, which could ...
How we measure biodiversity can have profound impacts on land-use
Credit: Egan Jimenez, Princeton University The world's human population is expanding, which means even more agricultural land will be needed ...
Impact of cocoa agroforestry on bird diversity
Smithsonian conservation research briefCredit: Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute Did you know chocolate comes from cocoa beans grown ...
Kiwi disease study finds closely related bacterial strains display different behaviors
Credit: Elodie Vandelle Over the last decade, severe outbreaks of bacterial canker have caused huge economic losses for kiwi growers, ...
With age, insufficient tryptophan alters gut microbiota, increases inflammation
Credit: Augusta University With age, a diet lacking in the essential amino acid tryptophan -- which has a key role ...
A new site for banana-related research
The Alliance-managed website MusaNet collects and shares global resources on banana (Musa) across the whole value chain - from collecting ...
We must transform the food system to achieve climate and sustainable development goals
A revolutionary approach to nourishing 10 billion people on a hotter planet without destroying the ecosystems on which we all ...
Compost improves apple orchard sustainability
Credit: Greg Peck As the saying goes, an apple a day keeps the doctor away. But what's the key to ...
Landmark field trials show potential of gene-editing
Credit: John Innes Centre Field trials investigating healthy compounds in agronomically important brassica crops have underlined the "immense potential" of ...
NTU and global nonprofit The Good Food Institute Asia Pacific launch new undergraduate course
Credit: (Credit to NTU Singapore). Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) and The Good Food Institute Asia Pacific (GFI APAC), ...
Keeping strawberries fresh using bioactive packaging
Films made of shellfish shells, essential oils, and nanoparticles to protect fruit from microbesCredit: Christian Fleury (INRS) Québec produces more ...
Plant-based diet protects from hypertension, preeclampsia
Credit: Michael Holahan, Augusta University A plant-based diet appears to afford significant protection to rats bred to become hypertensive on ...
How do plants balance microbial friends and foes?
Credit: David Thoms, Yan Liang, and Cara H. Haney Plants are constantly exposed to microbes: pathogens that cause disease, commensals ...
Localized the gene for blue plum skin
Researchers from CRAG and IRTA find the gene that determines Japanese plum skin colour due to the presence or absence ...
Food systems offer huge opportunities to cut emissions, study finds
Greenhouse gases from food production are systematically underestimated, researchers sayCredit: From Tubiello et al., Environmental Research Letters 2021 A new ...
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