Food and Agricultural Sciences News and Research

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What does Creativity and Innovation Look Like In Science?

For World Creativity and Innovation Day, we asked leading experts within the life sciences industry 'What does creativity and innovation look like to you within science?'.

21 Apr 2022

Double-stranded RNA provoke bone loss during periodontitis

Researchers from Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology have made a novel revelation about the processes of bone loss in gum disease (periodontitis).

19 Apr 2022

A new breakthrough in the quest to improve photosynthesis in certain crops

A Cornell University study describes a breakthrough in the quest to improve photosynthesis in certain crops, a step toward adapting plants to rapid climate changes and increasing yields to feed a projected 9 billion people by 2050.

19 Apr 2022

Comprehensive review provides insights on salt-reducing technologies in food production

Sodium is an essential micronutrient, but the amount we need is small. Three slices of bread or one teaspoon of table salt will do it, and chances are your daily sodium intake is far greater.

19 Apr 2022

Vertical farming shows potential for the production of healthy and sustainable food in future

Alternative production systems to provide the growing global population with healthy, nutritious and sustainably produced foodstuffs are currently gaining considerable attention.

15 Apr 2022

Are Sustainable Biopesticides the Future for Agriculture?

In this interview, we speak to Sean Smith, CEO of Eden Research, about their sustainable biopesticides and how they are helping to combat plastic pollution.

From Eden Research plc 13 Apr 2022

Plant compound may be a good therapeutic candidate for treating food allergies

Researchers combined advanced computational methods with experimental studies to gain new insight, at the cell level, into how the plant compound formononetin might be used to treat food allergies.

4 Apr 2022

A single gene regulates species diversity in an entire ecosystem, a study reveals

A study team from the University of Zurich did a lab experiment with a plant and its related insect habitat to see if a single gene could alter an entire ecosystem.

4 Apr 2022

Plant biologists determine molecular ‘blueprint’, showing how plants observe light

For survival, plants depend on their ability to detect light. Plants, unlike animals, do not have photoreceptors in their eyes to receive and transmit messages from visual inputs.

1 Apr 2022

Duplicate genes in plant genomes, an eye-opener for crop development plans

When plant geneticists discover a gene that boosts crop yields, they want to see if they can replicate the effect in other crops.

1 Apr 2022

NeoSpectra by Si-Ware and NutriControl to Provide Customers with Improved Solutions for Accurate In-Field Materials Analysis

The new partnership pairs NutriControl’s industry-leading NIR calibration lines with NeoSpectra by Si-Ware’s portable NeoSpectra Scanner technology for unparalleled, accurate testing capabilities.

31 Mar 2022

UC Riverside scientists aim to find how some fungi and bacteria manage to thrive post-wildfires

Scientists have found microbes living in the charred soil that wildfires leave behind. They don't know how some fungi and bacteria manage to thrive when everything else has died, but a new project aims to change that.

31 Mar 2022

Discovery of genetic pathway could lead to more affordable, higher-yield bioprocessing

A team of researchers working with the Center for Bioenergy Innovation at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has discovered a pathway to encourage a type of lignin formation in plants that could make the processing of crops grown for products such as sustainable jet fuels easier and less costly.

29 Mar 2022

Unhealthy global diets are damaging human and planetary health

A global diet that increasingly includes ultra-processed foods is having a negative impact on the diversity of plant species available for human consumption while also damaging human and planetary health, according to a commentary published in the journal BMJ Global Health.

29 Mar 2022

Food and Agricultural Sciences News and Research

Latest Food and Agricultural Sciences News and Research

What does Creativity and Innovation Look Like In Science?

Double-stranded RNA provoke bone loss during periodontitis

A new breakthrough in the quest to improve photosynthesis in certain crops

Comprehensive review provides insights on salt-reducing technologies in food production

Vertical farming shows potential for the production of healthy and sustainable food in future

Are Sustainable Biopesticides the Future for Agriculture?

Plant compound may be a good therapeutic candidate for treating food allergies

A single gene regulates species diversity in an entire ecosystem, a study reveals

Plant biologists determine molecular ‘blueprint’, showing how plants observe light

Duplicate genes in plant genomes, an eye-opener for crop development plans

NeoSpectra by Si-Ware and NutriControl to Provide Customers with Improved Solutions for Accurate In-Field Materials Analysis

UC Riverside scientists aim to find how some fungi and bacteria manage to thrive post-wildfires

Discovery of genetic pathway could lead to more affordable, higher-yield bioprocessing

Unhealthy global diets are damaging human and planetary health

Salmonella strains in birds do not harbor antimicrobial-resistance genes, study finds

Research investigates the effect of land-use change on plant-soil interactions

Researchers investigate new properties of edible plants improving food production

Adding a form of cellulose can prevent ice cream from becoming unpleasantly crunchy

Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs help to enhance crop genome editing tools, study says

Researchers address the dynamics of soil microbial community structure and stoichiometry

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