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Tracking wild peanut genes to improve crop resilience

Plant breeders around the globe have worked for decades to create peanut varieties that can fight off fungal diseases, and several have been successful. Now DNA detectives show how important peanut seed exchange is to food security.

Isabel15/10/2021

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Climate change, population growth and stressed plants: Feeding the world in the 21st century

New research sheds fresh light on plant chloroplasts, and the proteins inside them. The regulation of chloroplast proteins is important for plant development and stress acclimation and is increasingly significant as plants - including our staple crops, wheat, rice, barley…

Isabel14/10/2021

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A preliminary framework for better urban agroforestry

Today’s cities don’t have walls for protection like ancient ones, but they are separate from less urban and rural land. Most goods that city-dwellers purchase are brought in from rural farms and manufacturers. There is an active community of urban…

Isabel13/10/2021

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Hand pollination of crops is of major importance

Pollinators – such as bees, butterflies and birds – are essential for agricultural production. However, natural pollination can also fail or be insufficient, which can lead to lower yields and poorer quality. This means alternative solutions are needed. Hand pollination,…

Isabel12/10/2021

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Non-English-language science could help save biodiversity

It is commonly assumed that any important scientific knowledge would be available in English, and so scientific knowledge used in international studies is predominantly sourced from English-language documents. But is this assumption correct? According to new research the answer is…

Isabel11/10/2021

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Tracking wild peanut genes to improve crop resilience

Climate change, population growth and stressed plants: Feeding the world in the 21st century

A preliminary framework for better urban agroforestry

Hand pollination of crops is of major importance

Non-English-language science could help save biodiversity

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