Research revealing bees’ ability to synthesise specific nutrients, to support the colonisation of their gut bacteria, offers insights into the symbiotic relationship they have with their gut microbiota. But changes to their habitat is placing this delicate...
Last year, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) sent seeds into space. The seeds have now returned and the organisations will begin new efforts to develop resilient crops that...
The Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research (FFAR), in partnership with the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), is on a mission to attract more private sector investment in the development of underutilised crops to feed an increasingly...
Scientists have discovered that a plant native to America could be grown in the UK and Europe, bringing huge potential benefits for ‘a balanced, sustainable diet’.
Australia’s position as one of the world’s most important grain producers has dwindled away following years of drought and flagging exports that have put wheat in a slump.
Phytic acid concentration in Indian sorghum, field pea more sensitive to climate change than other Australian broadacre crops, and durum wheat dry mass, water and protein composition.
Investigating stripe rust proliferation in Australian wheat, osmotic stress on barley, the role of tillage and crop rotation in weed reduction, and boosting 1RS raises wheat root biomass, not yields.
Mineral imbalance in African soil lowers yields, drought effects reduced with wheat dwarfing gene, sprouting wheat boosts antioxidant capacity and building aphid resistance in food crops.
Disease-resistant wheat that can up yields developed, global pest problem is a cause for concern, annual effects of climate change are identified, methods to reduce aflatoxin contamination investigated.
In a move to boost industry research and enhance nutritional
applications of wheat and other major cereal crops, chemical giant
DuPont announced this week that it is making proprietary wheat
genome data available to public and private...
