A new study published on 15 November in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems has presented a cheap and easy real-time method to measure nutrient levels in grassland (1). This rapid
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Newly discovered gene mutation can produce drought-resistant crops without growth defects
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A new study published on 8 November in Nature Communications has demonstrated that modifying the signalling of the plant steroids, known as brassinosteroids, in only the vascular tissue of plants
Aerospace has the potential to transform African agriculture, but the biggest challenge will be getting these technologies into the hands of farmers that need them. The white paper entitled The
Recent EU ruling on gene-edited crops may deny Europe important opportunities in sustainable agriculture, say scientists
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Three months ago, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that gene-edited crops, including those created using the newer and more precise gene-editing technologies like CRISPR–Cas9, should be subject to
Should the agricultural industry adopt an approach similar to the auto industry’s fuel-emissions standards?
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A new study published on 15 October in Nature Sustainability finds that adopting benchmarks similar to the fuel-efficiency standards used by the automotive industry in the production of fertilizer could
A new study published on 10 October in the journal Nature has found that sustainably feeding the world population, estimated to reach 10 billion by 2050, is achievable but only
California-based company Iron Ox has just launched its first fully autonomous farm, run entirely by robots and artificial intelligence (AI). The agritech startup seems to have taken precision farming to a
Scientists in the US are working toward virus-infected insects that would be dispersed in fields to genetically engineer agricultural crops as part of an ongoing programme funded by the US Defense
Engineering Photosynthesis: Over-expressing an enzyme in maize could lead to higher yields
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A new study published on 1 October in Nature Plants has shown that boosting the content of an enzyme called Ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (Rubisco) can make maize (corn) plants more productive
More bad news for bees it seems. A new study published on 24 September in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a highly regarded journal, has revealed that a