Food and Agricultural Sciences News and Research

Latest Food and Agricultural Sciences News and Research

Returning Land To Nature With High-Yield Farming

The expansion of farmlands to meet the growing food demand of the world's ever-expanding population places a heavy burden on natural ecosystems.

20 Apr 2020

Plant Diversity In European Forests Is Declining

In Europe's temperate forests, less common plant species are being replaced by more widespread species.

20 Apr 2020

Livestock and farming should be the future focus of agriculture

As the only alkaline gas in the atmosphere, ammonia can react with sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides to form fine particles, accelerating atmospheric haze.

20 Apr 2020

Corona and Air Pollution: How does it Impact Fatalities?

Elevated levels of nitrogen dioxide in the air may be associated with a high number of deaths from COVID-19.

20 Apr 2020

A Magnetic Cork Allows The Removal Of Polluting Water Waste

UC3M has patented a magnetic cork that could remove polluting particles from water, among other uses.

20 Apr 2020

Fruit May Mask Taste Of Dark Green Vegetables In Commercial Baby Foods

Commercially prepared baby foods that purport to be loaded with dark green vegetables are sweetened with fruit puree researchers have found.

17 Apr 2020

Economic Growth Is Incompatible With Biodiversity Conservation

The increase in resource consumption and polluting emissions as a result of economic growth is not compatible with biodiversity conservation.

17 Apr 2020

A More Plant-Based Diet Without Stomach Troubles

A plant-based diet is a good choice for both climate and health. This article looks at stomach problems and plant-based diets.

16 Apr 2020

New algorithm predicts the evolution of genetic mutations in species

David McCandlish and Juannan Zhou, both quantitative biologists at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, have designed a new algorithm that has predictive power, providing researchers the ability to observe the way particular genetic mutations combine to make crucial proteins change over the duration of a species’ evolution.

16 Apr 2020

Clock protein moves in sync with temperature to coordinate rhythms in shoots, roots

Five years ago, researchers from the Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics led by the CSIC Research Professor Paloma Mas made the breakthrough discovery that the circadian clocks in the growing tip of the plant shoot function in a similar way to the clocks in the mammalian brain, which in both cases are able to synchronize the daily rhythms of the cells in distal organs.

14 Apr 2020

3D-Printed Corals Could Improve Bioenergy And Help Coral Reefs

Researchers have 3D printed coral-inspired structures that are capable of growing dense populations of microscopic algae.

13 Apr 2020

Researchers develop new tool to study how lipids interact with proteins in plants

Harvesting sunlight to make energy is a complex reaction that plants do naturally, but isn't well understood.

13 Apr 2020

Study finds how sweet taste perception is fine-tuned in response to different diets

At the University of Sydney, researchers have identified the fundamental science behind the fine-tuning of sweet taste perception in response to different diets.

13 Apr 2020

Climate change to affect complex food webs in the oceans

Global climate change will affect fish sizes in unpredictable ways and, consequently, impact complex food webs in our oceans, a new IMAS-led study has shown.

10 Apr 2020

Hormone produced in starved leaves promotes absorption of nitrogen

Nagoya University researchers have found that in response to the nitrogen demand of leaves, plants produce a hormone that travels from the leaves to the roots to stimulate the uptake of nitrogen from the soil.

10 Apr 2020