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Temporal crop diversity stabilises agricultural production

Securing food supplies around the globe is a major challenge facing humanity, especially in light of the predicted increase in the world’s population to almost ten billion people by 2050 and the effects of climate change. Greater crop diversity in…

Isabel07/01/2021

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Index reveals integrity issues for many of the world’s forests

Only 40 per cent of forests are considered to have high ecological integrity, according to a new global measure, the Forest Landscape Integrity Index. This index has been created by 47 forest and conservation experts from across the world

Isabel06/01/2021

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Maize outpaces soybeans in fighting off fungal invasions

Sudden death syndrome (SDS) is a devastating disease that afflicts soybean crops, causing annual losses in U.S. soybean yields in excess of $274 million dollars. New research shows that the trick to surviving the disease might be a matter of…

Isabel05/01/2021

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How plants compete for underground real estate affects climate change and food production

You might have observed plants competing for sunlight — the way they stretch upwards and outwards to block each other’s access to the sun’s rays — but out of sight, another type of competition is happening underground. In the same…

Isabel04/01/2021

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After 100 years, plant pathologists revisit fire blight hypothesis

Historically credited as being the first bacterium ever characterized as a plant pathogen, fire blight is a bacterial disease that leads to significant losses of pear and apple. The role of insects in the spread of this disease has been…

Isabel31/12/2020

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Temporal crop diversity stabilises agricultural production

Index reveals integrity issues for many of the world’s forests

Maize outpaces soybeans in fighting off fungal invasions

How plants compete for underground real estate affects climate change and food production

After 100 years, plant pathologists revisit fire blight hypothesis

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