Blog

BlogGlobal Change

How diverse is your food?

Dr Colin Khoury This post was written by Dr Colin Khoury. Colin studies diversity in the crops people grow and eat worldwide, and the implications of change in this diversity on human health and environmental sustainability. He is particularly interested…
Isabel
24/04/2017
BlogResearch

Roots of a second green revolution

This week we spoke to Professor Jonathan Lynch, Penn State University, whose research on root traits has deepened our understanding of how plants adapt to drought and low soil fertility.     Could you begin by giving us a brief…
Isabel
13/04/2017
BlogFuture Directions

Creole maize reveals adaptation secrets

By Lucina Melesio An international team of scientists identified a hundred genes that influence adaptation to the latitude, altitude, growing season and flowering time of nearly 4,500 native maize varieties in Mexico and in almost all Latin American and Caribbean…
Isabel
06/04/2017