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 2022: 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.

Revolutionizing Agriculture: How Agrigenomics Is Shaping the Future of Farming

Effects of Drought on Farming

How has COVID-19 Affected Food Security?

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.

The Impacts of a Growing Population on Agriculture

What is Food Safety?

Why is Rosewood so Expensive?

Spectroscopy's Role in Geochemistry

Investigating the Intersection Between Forest Health and Human Health

Importance of Biotechnology in Agriculture

How to Make the Best Jam According to Science

Role of Bioinformatics in Agriculture

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Importance of Nematology in Agriculture

How Do Agricultural Management Techniques Affect Soil Quality?

How do Microbes Give Cheese its Flavor?

Utilizing Water Management to Overcome Extreme Weather

Feeding the Future; Ensuring Food Security for All

COVID-19 and Food Safety

Bacteriophages as Biosensors for Food and Water Safety

The Future of Sustainable Agriculture

Importance of Healthy Ecosystems for Global Health

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

How Have Consumer Habits Changed Since COVID-19?

How can Soil Increase Food Production?

What Causes Soil Erosion?

Does Migration Affect Agriculture Production?

Formulating Pesticides for Sustainable Agriculture

Effect of Food on the Gut Microbiome

Gut Microbes in Determining Food Allergies in Children

How is the Flower Industry Impacting the Planet?

The Application of Computational Modeling in Contemporary Fisheries

Speed Breeding: A Promising Tool for Growing World Population

The Science Behind Hunger

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

Importance of Healthy Ecosystems for Global Health

How Diverse are Cropping Systems?

What are the Most Common Adulterated Foods?

Threats in the Food Chain

Are Genetically Modified (GM) Crops Saving the World?

Impacts of Climate Change on Soil Health

Bioremediation: An Overview

What is 'Closed Loop' Agriculture?

Is Genetics the Key to the Evolution of Aquaculture?

Precision Agriculture: Challenges and Future Outlook

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

Can a Microbe Convert Greenhouse Gases to Commodity Products?

Protein and Bloating

Secret Sugar; Finding Hidden Sugars in the Food You Eat

The Impact of COVID-19 on Agriculture

Could Eating Insects be the Future of Food?

How Important are Sensors to Agriculture?

Why is Wildlife Conservation Crucial to a Sustainable Future?

Bio farming - A Holistic Approach to Ensure Environmental Sustainability

What is Quality Control in Food Science?

What is Bioenergy?

Effect of Light on Wheat Plants

Deforestation and its Drawbacks

What is Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA)?

Farm Biosecurity

Daily Life of a Food Scientist

Adapting and Developing Aquaculture Practices in an Era of Climate Change

Noise Pollution and its Effects on Coral Reefs

Antibiotic Resistance in Agriculture

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

ATR-FTIR in the Food and Beverage Industry

The Ocean to Humanity: Connection, Sustenance, Support

Using Plants to Detect Explosives

The Nutritional Benefits of Pulses

A Guide to Improving Crop Production in Dry Climates

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

Food Science and Biotechnology

What is Agricultural Science?

How are Food Microbes Saving Lives?

Analyzing the Growing Threat of Soil Extinction

Hot Melt Extrusion in the Pharmaceutical and Food Industries

The Implications of Evolution in Agriculture

Investigating the Intersection between Agriculture and Biotechnology

What is Soil Pollution?

Insight into Soil Health

How is Pollution Changing the Chemistry of the Ocean?

Water Stress on Cotton Plants

Implications of Genetically Modified Organisms for Fisheries

Environmental Problems caused by Polymers

How Will Climate Change Affect the Taste of Beer?

What are the Risks In the Food Chain?

Investigating the Role of Field Mapping in Agriculture

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

Revolutionizing the Field of Soil Science

How Vulnerable is the Agricultural Industry to Climate Change?

Pesticides in Agriculture

Arsenic in Rice; Should you be Concerned?

How can we End Hunger?

Insight into the World of Agricultural Robotics

Reducing Pesticide Use in Agriculture

Does Your Diet Affect Your DNA?

What is Controlled Environment Agriculture?

Detecting and Identifying Flavonoids

What is Regenerative Agriculture?

Improving Crop Yields using Genetics

How to Live a Greener Life

Investigating the Relationship Between Food Allergies and Eczema

Restoring the Ocean's Ecosystem Using Aquaculture

How are Crops Gaining Resistance?

How Does Biochar Affect the Environment?

Application of Proteomics in Agriculture

The Future of Seaweed Farming

Protecting the Genetic Diversity of Food

Fish Hatcheries- Benefits and Drawbacks

A Guide to Plant Hormones

Using Digital Solutions to Improve Farm Efficiency

Investigating the Importance of Groundwater

Sustainable Soil Management and the Role of Spectroscopy

Food Preservation Methods

Insight into Food Waste

Food Science and Artificial Intelligence

Will Meat Alternatives Disrupt the Food Industry?

Women in Agriculture

Implementing Big Data to Boost the Agricultural Sector

Microbes in Raw Fish

Insight into the Challenges of the Seafood Industry

Poultry Farming: An Overview

Excess Fertilizer Use and Soil Health

Effects of Climate Change on Crop Yields

How can we Feed the Planet Without Affecting the Climate?

Insight into the Biggest Challenges Faced by the Aquaculture Industry

Cultured Meat During the Climate Crisis

Investigating the Role of Aerial Imaging in Agriculture

How does the Keto Diet Affect the Immune System?

Synthetic Food: An Overview

Effect of Human Activity on Plant Biodiversity

What is Urban Agriculture?

What are Herbicides?

What is Organic Farming?

Are Wildfires Good for Biodiversity?

What is Humus, and Why is it Important?

How can Genetically Modified Seeds Improve Food Security?

What does the Future of Food Look Like?

A Guide to Growing Crops in Cold Climates

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

Beef Jerky and Mania

Using Biochemistry to Improve Crop Cultivation

Smart Farming: The Sustainable Future for Food

Less Fishing to Fish More – Strategies to Replenish Fishery Stocks

Could CRISPR Change the Future of our Food?

Precision Agriculture: Challenges and Future Outlook

Investigating the Impact of Disasters on Food and Agriculture

Plant Pathology

What is Agro-Terrorism?

Illegal Fishing and Its Impacts on Conservation and Fisheries

Mangroves: A Key to Restoring the Oceans

The Link Between Food Waste and Sustainability

Effects of Filtered Coffee on Plasma Metabolites

Insights into Food Fraud

Organic vs Inorganic Farming

Everything You Need to Know About Vertical Farming

Microbes in Raw Meat

Effect of pH on Plant Growth

Determining Nitrogen Levels in Soil

How are Microbes used to Restore Degraded Soil?

Solving the Biodiversity Crisis

How do Crops Get Lost to Pests?

Genetic Barcoding in Seafood: Ensuring Authenticity and Traceability in Aquaculture

What are the Health Benefits of Organic Food?

How do Food Sensitivity Assays Work?

Insight into Genetically Modified Food

Boosting Plant Health Using Gene Editing

Role of Analytical Chemistry in Agriculture

Chemistry of Food Additives and Preservatives

How to Reduce your Food Waste

What has COP26 taught us about Sustainable Agriculture?

Science of Spicy Foods

What is Aquaculture?

Everything you need to know about Palm Oil

Advanced Techniques in Soil and Geology Analysis

How Important is Communication to the Agricultural Industry?

The Aquatic Toxicity of the Pulp Paper Industry

How did Antibiotics in Food Transform Agriculture?

Investigating the Vulnerability of the Food Industry to Cyberattacks

Using GC-MS to Analyze the Flavors in Fruit

What is Food Science?

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

Automation in Agriculture

How can we Improve the Shelf-Life of Seafood?

What is Tillage?

Integrated Approaches to Reduce Food Waste and Loss

Pushing Towards the SDGs in Everyday Science

Benefits of Vertical Agriculture and Hydroponics

Life After COVID: Building Back Greener and Better

What Are Prebiotics?

A Guide to Increasing Water Efficiency in Farming

What is 'Blue Food'?

'Land Sparing' vs. 'Land Sharing' Agriculture

From Rain to Sun; How Weather Monitoring Helps Agriculture

How is Pulse Farming Beneficial to the Environment?

Seed Storing- Protecting the Future of Food

What is the Bioeconomy?

Food Packaging Applications for Equilibrium Modified Atmosphere Packaging

Indigenous Technology and Climate Change

Using DNA to Fight Crop Diseases

Applications of Spectroscopy in Agriculture

What are Cover Crops and Why are They Useful?

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

Investigating a Wines Character using Chromatography

How is Climate Change Affecting Food Security?

The Domestication of Crops and Animals throughout Agricultural History

What is Intercropping?

Soil to Oil: The Agricultural Science Behind High-Quality Hemp Extracts

What is Food Microbiology?

What is Cellular Aquaculture?

Insight into Global Food Inequalities

Investigating Caffeine Levels in Drinks

How Does Manure Effect the Growth of Plants?

Environmental Metabolomics

Use of Genetics in Agriculture

How are Drones Changing the Future of Agriculture?

Soil Erosion- How Does it Affect Agriculture?

How could Gene Editing solve Food Allergies?

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.

Soil DNA Reveals Hundreds of Unknown Bacterial Genomes

Most bacteria cannot be cultured in the lab-and that's been bad news for medicine. Many of our frontline antibiotics originated from microbes, yet as antibiotic resistance spreads and drug pipelines run dry, the soil beneath our feet has a vast hidden reservoir of untapped lifesaving compounds.

16 Sep 2025

New Genomic Analysis Platform Launched for Tracking for Zoonotic Pathogens

Zoonotic pathogens, capable of crossing between animals and humans, pose escalating threats due to antimicrobial resistance, genetic diversification, and complex transmission patterns.

11 Sep 2025

Predicting Protein Metal Binding with New Artificial Intelligence Model

Biologists and computational scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory recently refined two artificial intelligence (AI) programs originally built by Meta, the company that owns Facebook, to predict protein shapes.

10 Sep 2025

Discovery of De Novo Genes Sheds Light on Peach Evolution and Traits

The emergence of new genes is a central driver of evolutionary innovation. While mechanisms such as duplication and horizontal gene transfer have been widely studied, de novo gene birth represents a unique pathway where functional genes arise from noncoding DNA.

8 Sep 2025

Ancient Plant Protein Unlocks New Strategy for Engineering Disease-Resistant Crops

Researchers led by Ken Shirasu at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS) in Japan have identified an ancient protein that has the potential to help defend plants against tens of thousands of different bacteria and other pathogens.

5 Sep 2025

Earth BioGenome Project Aims to Build a Digital Library of All Life

From the mighty blue whale to the humble baker’s yeast, scientists have barely begun to understand the vast genetic diversity among lifeforms.

5 Sep 2025

Automated 3D Imaging Uncovers Genetic Markers for Sorghum Leaf Arrangement

By reconstructing 366 sorghum plants from calibrated images, the team showed that automated measurements achieved near-human repeatability and enabled genome-wide association studies (GWAS) to uncover genetic markers linked to leaf orientation.

3 Sep 2025

Genetic Discovery Reveals How Plants Respond to Blue Light and Cold

Plants may be stuck in one place, but the world around them is constantly changing. In order to grow and flower at the right time, plants must constantly collect information about their surroundings, measuring things like temperature, brightness, and length of day.

3 Sep 2025

Cornell Study Reveals Early Genetic Differences Between Male and Female Embryos

Cornell researchers have uncovered the genetic triggers that cause male and female bovine embryos to develop differently, as early as seven to eight days after fertilization.

1 Sep 2025

RNA Binding Proteins and EVs Offer Clues to Cancer's Evasion of Immune Response

Certain types of biochemical processes can impair the immune system's ability to recognize and kill cancer cells. Purdue University's W. Andy Tao and his associates have developed a new way to study these processes.

27 Aug 2025

Machine Learning Model Accounts for Biological Variability in Culture Media Design

Cell culture is a foundational technology widely used across fields such as pharmaceutical production, regenerative medicine, food science, and materials engineering. A critical component of successful cell culture is the culture medium-a solution containing essential nutrients that support cell growth.

21 Aug 2025

Salk Researchers Create First Genetic Atlas to Span the Entire Arabidopsis Life Cycle

Nearly everything you know about plants was first discovered in a plant you've likely never heard of. Arabidopsis thaliana, also known as thale cress, is a small, flowering weed that has shaped much of plant biology as we know it.

20 Aug 2025

New Insights Reveal Bacterial Roots of Key Plant Hormone Enzymes

Terpenoids play vital roles in plant ecology-from repelling pests to attracting pollinators-and are produced by terpene synthases (TPSs) enzymes.

19 Aug 2025

Study Uncovers Genetic Driver of Color Patterns in Saintpaulia Flowers

Flowers, specialized plant structures consisting of colorful petals and green sepals, play a key role in plant propagation.

19 Aug 2025

Microbes Help Shape the Developing Brain Before and After Birth

New research from Michigan State University finds that microbes play an important role in shaping early brain development, specifically in a key brain region that controls stress, social behavior, and vital body functions.

14 Aug 2025

New Research Reveals Link Between Copper Antimicrobials and Antibiotic Resistance

Copper has emerged as a key ally in the fight against antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Copper sulfate solutions, for example, have been used since the 1700s to combat fungal infections in vineyards, orchards, and a variety of other agricultural contexts.

8 Aug 2025

OLED Materials Have Potential New Uses in Detecting Pesticides for the Farming Industry

Researchers are set to shine a different kind of light on the farming industry after receiving funding to explore how fluorescent materials can detect the presence of pesticides and herbicides in food production.

8 Aug 2025

New Atomic Force Microscopy Reveals Biofilm Architecture

Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have reimagined the capabilities of atomic force microscopy, or AFM, transforming it from a tool for imaging nanoscale features into one that also captures large-scale biological architecture.

6 Aug 2025

Newly Evolved Genes in Peach Offer Clues to Crop Adaptation

The emergence of new genes plays a critical role in driving species-specific traits and adaptive evolution.

1 Aug 2025

How a Graduate Student Delivered a Real-Time Soil Moisture Map

The launch of an AI-powered soil moisture mapping tool created by University of Sydney researchers could transform irrigation, fuel reduction burning, and pasture management across Tasmania and beyond.

31 Jul 2025

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