Food and Agricultural Sciences

Our food and agricultural sciences hub covers a range of research papers and news stories on the many processes involved in food cultivation and production. Subtopics include how animals and crops can influence the sustainability of farms and how to address food security and supply. From having suitable soil to climate change impacting our food products, we look at all of these aspects in our collated pages.

Global Market Report: Agricultural Science

In this article, we discuss the applications and recent developments of agricultural science. We also assess the global market and predict how the sector will evolve in the future.

Overview

If you’re looking for the answers to questions such as ‘what is food science?’ and ‘what is agricultural science?’, you’ll find them here. This section provides two key articles on food and agricultural science and a changeable, exciting topic. Scientists write these posts to provide agricultural education and further information on food systems, agricultural productivity and similar matters.

Investigating the Intersection between Agriculture and Biotechnology

Revolutionizing the Field of Soil Science

How Will Climate Change Affect the Taste of Beer?

Feature Articles

Our featured articles include a wide variety of topics under the food and agricultural sciences category. For example, what are the risks food chains face? What is vertical farming or how to develop sustainable foods? Our writers discuss food waste, antibiotic resistance in agriculture, using gene editing for plant health, and other fascinating matters relating to the development of food and the food industry.

What is 'Closed Loop' Agriculture?

How Important is Communication to the Agricultural Industry?

Investigating the Role of Aerial Imaging in Agriculture

What is Agricultural Science?

What is Food Science?

Implementing Big Data to Boost the Agricultural Sector

Under the Sea; Importance of Underwater Robots and Drones in Sea Farming

Investigating the Role of Field Mapping in Agriculture

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Importance of Biodiversity in Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

What Role does Agriculture Play within the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)?

Everything You Need to Know About Vertical Farming

How, When, and Why to Add Lime to Your Soil

Restoring the Ocean's Ecosystem Using Aquaculture

How are Drones Changing the Future of Agriculture?

What are the Risks In the Food Chain?

Insight into Food Waste

Impacts of Climate Change on Soil Health

How Does Biochar Affect the Environment?

Investigating the Impact of Disasters on Food and Agriculture

How Do Agricultural Management Techniques Affect Soil Quality?

Antibiotic Resistance in Agriculture

From Rain to Sun; How Weather Monitoring Helps Agriculture

Mangroves: A Key to Restoring the Oceans

What is Intercropping?

What is Regenerative Agriculture?

Farm Biosecurity

Pushing Towards the SDGs in Everyday Science

Insight into Genetically Modified Food

Food Preservation Methods

The Impact of COVID-19 on Agriculture

Using Plants to Detect Explosives

Illegal Fishing and Its Impacts on Conservation and Fisheries

Chemistry of Food Additives and Preservatives

Importance of Biotechnology in Agriculture

Role of Analytical Chemistry in Agriculture

What are Cover Crops and Why are They Useful?

What is Food Microbiology?

Boosting Plant Health Using Gene Editing

Environmental Problems caused by Polymers

Importance of Healthy Ecosystems for Global Health

What are Herbicides?

A Guide to Plant Hormones

The Implications of Evolution in Agriculture

Insight into the Biggest Challenges Faced by the Aquaculture Industry

Less Fishing to Fish More – Strategies to Replenish Fishery Stocks

What Causes Soil Erosion?

Role of Bioinformatics in Agriculture

How can Soil Increase Food Production?

How are Crops Gaining Resistance?

What is Organic Farming?

Organic vs Inorganic Farming

What is Food Safety?

The Science Behind Hunger

Microbes in Raw Fish

Protein and Bloating

Effect of pH on Plant Growth

Effects of Drought on Farming

Effect of Light on Wheat Plants

Indigenous Technology and Climate Change

Insight into the World of Agricultural Robotics

COVID-19 and Food Safety

A Guide to Growing Crops in Cold Climates

Analyzing the Growing Threat of Soil Extinction

Detecting and Identifying Flavonoids

What is Quality Control in Food Science?

Investigating the Role of the Internet of Things (IoT) in Farming

Is Genetics the Key to the Evolution of Aquaculture?

Arsenic in Rice; Should you be Concerned?

Are Genetically Modified (GM) Crops Saving the World?

Investigating the Intersection Between Forest Health and Human Health

Applications of Spectroscopy in Agriculture

Effects of Climate Change on Crop Yields

How is the Flower Industry Impacting the Planet?

Food Science and Artificial Intelligence

A Guide to Improving Crop Production in Dry Climates

Does Migration Affect Agriculture Production?

Food Science and Biotechnology

Using GC-MS to Analyze the Flavors in Fruit

Integrated Approaches to Reduce Food Waste and Loss

Investigating Caffeine Levels in Drinks

Investigating a Wines Character using Chromatography

Poultry Farming: An Overview

How can we Improve the Shelf-Life of Seafood?

What is Tillage?

Gut Microbes in Determining Food Allergies in Children

What is Bioenergy?

Effect of Human Activity on Plant Biodiversity

Deforestation and its Drawbacks

Daily Life of a Food Scientist

Water Stress on Cotton Plants

Soil Erosion- How Does it Affect Agriculture?

Fish Hatcheries- Benefits and Drawbacks

Beef Jerky and Mania

Why is Rosewood so Expensive?

How does the Keto Diet Affect the Immune System?

Determining Nitrogen Levels in Soil

Synthetic Food: An Overview

Effects of Filtered Coffee on Plasma Metabolites

How can we Feed the Planet Without Affecting the Climate?

Microbes in Raw Meat

How do Crops Get Lost to Pests?

Adapting and Developing Aquaculture Practices in an Era of Climate Change

How are Microbes used to Restore Degraded Soil?

How Does Manure Effect the Growth of Plants?

Benefits of Vertical Agriculture and Hydroponics

Bio farming - A Holistic Approach to Ensure Environmental Sustainability

How Diverse are Cropping Systems?

Pesticides in Agriculture

What is Aquaculture?

What are the Health Benefits of Organic Food?

How could Gene Editing solve Food Allergies?

Bioremediation: An Overview

Smart Farming: The Sustainable Future for Food

Sustainable Soil Management and the Role of Spectroscopy

Life After COVID: Building Back Greener and Better

How Important are Sensors to Agriculture?

Food Packaging Applications for Equilibrium Modified Atmosphere Packaging

Environmental Metabolomics

Will Meat Alternatives Disrupt the Food Industry?

How do Food Sensitivity Assays Work?

ATR-FTIR in the Food and Beverage Industry

Improving Crop Yields using Genetics

Automation in Agriculture

Everything you need to know about Palm Oil

The Application of Computational Modeling in Contemporary Fisheries

Can a Microbe Convert Greenhouse Gases to Commodity Products?

Implications of Genetically Modified Organisms for Fisheries

Reducing Pesticide Use in Agriculture

Threats in the Food Chain

The Domestication of Crops and Animals throughout Agricultural History

Wellbeing in an Era of Global Change: The Implications of Ocean Acidification on Food Production and How it Links to Human Wellbeing

Speed Breeding: A Promising Tool for Growing World Population

Plant Pathology

Importance of Nematology in Agriculture

Effect of Food on the Gut Microbiome

A Guide to Increasing Water Efficiency in Farming

Women in Agriculture

Science of Spicy Foods

Importance of Healthy Ecosystems for Global Health

Formulating Pesticides for Sustainable Agriculture

How is Climate Change Affecting Food Security?

Insight into Soil Health

How can we End Hunger?

How has COVID-19 Affected Food Security?

The Future of Sustainable Agriculture

Feeding the Future; Ensuring Food Security for All

How to Reduce your Food Waste

The Future of Seaweed Farming

Cultured Meat During the Climate Crisis

Seed Storing- Protecting the Future of Food

What has COP26 taught us about Sustainable Agriculture?

Hot Melt Extrusion in the Pharmaceutical and Food Industries

Noise Pollution and its Effects on Coral Reefs

How is Pollution Changing the Chemistry of the Ocean?

What is Agro-Terrorism?

Does Your Diet Affect Your DNA?

Using DNA to Fight Crop Diseases

What is the Bioeconomy?

How Vulnerable is the Agricultural Industry to Climate Change?

How is Pulse Farming Beneficial to the Environment?

The Nutritional Benefits of Pulses

Why is Wildlife Conservation Crucial to a Sustainable Future?

Solving the Biodiversity Crisis

Investigating the Importance of Groundwater

The Impacts of a Growing Population on Agriculture

Application of Proteomics in Agriculture

Use of Genetics in Agriculture

Using Biochemistry to Improve Crop Cultivation

What is Urban Agriculture?

How did Antibiotics in Food Transform Agriculture?

Could Eating Insects be the Future of Food?

Investigating the Vulnerability of the Food Industry to Cyberattacks

What does the Future of Food Look Like?

Protecting the Genetic Diversity of Food

Food for Thought; How the Food we Eat Affects the Brain

Insight into Global Food Inequalities

Insight into the Challenges of the Seafood Industry

'Land Sparing' vs. 'Land Sharing' Agriculture

How to Make the Best Jam According to Science

Secret Sugar; Finding Hidden Sugars in the Food You Eat

How can Green Chemistry Help Solve the Global Threat of Food Security?

How can Genetically Modified Seeds Improve Food Security?

How do Microbes Give Cheese its Flavor?

Could CRISPR Change the Future of our Food?

What are the Most Common Adulterated Foods?

The Aquatic Toxicity of the Pulp Paper Industry

What is Soil Pollution?

What is Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA)?

What is 'Blue Food'?

How Have Consumer Habits Changed Since COVID-19?

How to Live a Greener Life

What is Humus, and Why is it Important?

The Ocean to Humanity: Connection, Sustenance, Support

How are Food Microbes Saving Lives?

The Link Between Food Waste and Sustainability

Are Wildfires Good for Biodiversity?

Excess Fertilizer Use and Soil Health

Investigating the Relationship Between Food Allergies and Eczema

Spectroscopy's Role in Geochemistry

What Are Prebiotics?

What is Cellular Aquaculture?

Precision Agriculture: Challenges and Future Outlook

Why Are Supply Chains Taking a Digital Approach to Food Waste?

Using Digital Solutions to Improve Farm Efficiency

Precision Agriculture: Challenges and Future Outlook

Utilizing Water Management to Overcome Extreme Weather

Latest Food and Agricultural Sciences News and Research

Whether it’s a discovery regarding pesticides or a novel code in genome editing, this section will include all of the latest news from food and agricultural science. These news pieces will be collected from around the world to bring you a range of discoveries and interesting facts on how we cultivate food and more.

Genomic Characterization of Shewanella Oneidensis to Replace Harsh Chemical Processing

Rare earth elements are used to power electric vehicles, wind turbines, and cell phones. These metals must be extracted from raw ore using acids and solvents.

3 Oct 2023

Sushi, A Fresh Feast or Hidden Health Hazard?

New research suggests that while sushi is generally safe to eat, some bacteria colonies in certain sushi could put those with weak immune systems at risk.

28 Sep 2023

Using Genetic Engineering to Facilitate Mutualistic Relationships Between Plants and Nitrogen-Fixing Microbes

Nitrogen is an essential nutrient for plant growth, but the overuse of synthetic nitrogen fertilizers in agriculture is not sustainable.

27 Sep 2023

Evonetix Unveils New Branding to Align With Its Vision for Gene-Length DNA Synthesis

EVONETIX LTD today announces the introduction of new branding to align with its vision to ‘Redefine possible’ through the development and commercialization of its benchtop semiconductor gene synthesis platform.

26 Sep 2023

New Study into New Renewable and Affordable Microgrid Using Biogas from Agriculture Farming

Bear Instruments, leading edge power electronics systems and instrumentation design and manufacturer, announced today (25 September) it is part of a consortium to deliver an affordable, reliable and clean energy microgrid for Vietnamese agriculture farms.

26 Sep 2023

Modern DNA Research Sheds Light on Genetic Diversity of Southern Africa

An international research team from the University of Bern in Switzerland, the University of Porto in Portugal, and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany employed ancestry decomposition techniques to uncover a distinct and highly divergent genetic ancestry within mixed populations residing in the Angolan Namib desert.

25 Sep 2023

New Halophyte Genome Sequence Sheds Light on Salt Tolerance Mechanisms

A Recent study conducted by Professor Qin Yuan's team from the Center for Genomics at the Haixia Institute of Science and Technology (Future Technology College) at Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University has been published in the prestigious journal Horticulture Research, which is a leading publication in the field of horticultural science.

25 Sep 2023

Valent BioSciences Announces Construction of New Oregon Facility

Valent BioSciences LLC has announced the construction of a new manufacturing facility in White City, Oregon.

From Valent Biosciences 22 Sep 2023

Developing New Way to Engineer Less Susceptible Crop Mixtures

A long-standing agricultural practice is to grow multiple plant varieties in the same field to increase disease resistance, but this can produce unpredictable results.

13 Sep 2023

Air Pollution Degrades Floral Odors, Making It Harder for Bees to Find Flowers

A new study has found that air pollution is preventing pollinators finding flowers because it degrades the scent.

11 Sep 2023

Floating Sea Farms: An Ingenious Solution to Feed the World and Ensure Freshwater by 2050

The sun and the sea – both abundant and free – are being harnessed in a unique project to create vertical sea farms floating on the ocean that can produce fresh water for drinking and agriculture.

11 Sep 2023

Genetic Cluster Could Switch Bad Fungi Into the Good Guys

Fruit and vegetable storage life can be significantly impacted by mold and fungi-based diseases. Some fungi, however, help their hosts by promoting plant survival.

7 Sep 2023

Ozone Pollution Threatens Wildflower Abundance and Crop Yields

A new study performed has discovered that air pollution considerably decreases pollination as it degrades the scent of flowers, impacting bees’ potential to determine them.

5 Sep 2023

Diversified Farms Can Support Forest-Dependent Bird Populations

Forests appear to provide better habitat for forest-dwelling wildlife than farms. Despite this, Stanford researchers discovered in one of the world’s longest-running studies of tropical wildlife populations that, over 18 years, smaller farms with widely different crop types interspersed with patches or ribbons of forest preserve many forest-dependent bird populations in Costa Rica, even as forest populations decline.

5 Sep 2023

Newly Discovered Fungus Helps Destroy a Harmful Food Toxin

Patulin is a harmful mycotoxin produced by fungi typically found in damaged fruits, including apples, pears, and grapes.

1 Sep 2023

Novel Genotyping Method Reveals New Insights into Lettuce Genomics

A consortium of European investigators used SPET for the first time in lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.) as part of the European Evaluation Network (EVA) of the European Cooperative Programme for Plant Genetic Resources (ECPGR), with the goal of studying its genetic diversity and identifying genomic regions that underpin agronomically important traits.

31 Aug 2023

Titanium Micro-Spikes Skewer Resistant Superbugs

A new study suggests rough surfaces inspired by the bacteria-killing spikes on insect wings may be more effective at combatting drug-resistant superbugs, including fungus, than previously understood.

30 Aug 2023

Fungi-Inoculated Oilseed Rape Plants Show Increased Flavonoid Biosynthesis

Researchers inoculated oilseed rape plants with a species of fungus that is known for its ability to combat pest insects.

29 Aug 2023

CNN-Based Model Can Accurately Estimate Rice Yield From Canopy Images

With the rise in global demand for staple crop products projected to substantially increase by 2050 due to population growth, rising per capita income, and the growing use of biofuels, it is necessary to adopt sustainable agricultural intensification practices in existing croplands to meet this demand.

28 Aug 2023

Plastics in Soil Might Make Bacteria More Resistant to Antibiotics

Modern farming, like any other industry, is heavily reliant on plastics. To name a few examples, consider plastic mulch lining vegetable beds, PVC pipes draining water from fields, polyethylene covering high tunnels, and plastic seed, fertilizer, and herbicide packaging.

24 Aug 2023

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