Back in the 1960s, when the Green Revolution started, the need was to provide calories for a starving world. Today, food is cheap. But it comes at great environmental cost. Climate change and the need to feed an ever-growing world…
Isabel20/09/2019
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GPC annual meeting group picture. From left to right: Xuelu Wang (ICAR2019 organizer); Weihua Tang (China Society Plant Biology); Blake Meyers (Danforth Center); Deena Errampalli (GPC Board of Directors Treasurer, President, Plant Canada); Bill Davies (GPC Past-President, UK Plant Sciences…
Isabel29/07/2019
The Global Plant Council and “Plants, People and Planet” announce the 3 winners of our #plantSciART competition.
Isabel04/07/2019
By W.J Davies and Jianbo Shen Lancaster Environment centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YQ. The UK and National Academy of Agriculture Green Development, Centre for Resources, Environment, and Food Security, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, China. Fourth post of our “Global…
Isabel02/07/2019
You often hear "scientists just need to communicate better". But communication is a two-way street. You can talk all you like but if no one is listening, then it's not going to get very far.
Isabel10/06/2019
By Mathew Reynolds, Wheat Physiologist at, CIMMYT First post of our “Global Collaboration” series Wheat is the most widely grown crop in the world, currently providing about 20 percent of human calorie consumption. However, demand is predicted to increase by 60 percent within…
Isabel09/06/2019
Picture: Dr. Felix Fritschi, University of Missouri, while talking with China Agricultural University graduate students Authors: Shannon K. King1,4, Jon T. Stemmle2, Robert E. Sharp3,4 1Department of Biochemistry, 2School of Journalism, 3Division of Plant Sciences, and 4Interdisciplinary Plant Group, University of Missouri, Columbia,…
Isabel09/06/2019