6+ hour, 53+ min ago   (608+ words) A sweeping synthesis of more than a quarter-century of research has concluded that biochar, the charcoal-like material produced by heating organic waste in the absence of oxygen, could become one of the most powerful tools available to Mediterranean farmers facing…...

11+ hour, 34+ min ago   (666+ words) Millets have long been dismissed as orphan crops, overshadowed by maize, rice and wheat in research funding and genomic attention. Yet as climate change intensifies droughts, heatwaves and soil salinization across the world’s most vulnerable agricultural regions, these small-seeded cereals…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago   (73+ words) In an era when three staple crops—maize, wheat, and rice—feed more than four billion people, scientists are turning their attention to forgotten plants that could reshape the future of food. A comprehensive new review published in BMC Agriculture…...

1+ week, 7+ hour ago   (77+ words) Vegetable grafting, the centuries-old practice of physically fusing the shoot of one plant onto the root system of another, is emerging as one of the most consequential tools in the effort to keep the world’s vegetable supply stable in the…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (857+ words) France’s spirulina farms are turning a traditionally warm-climate crop into a distinctly temperate form of biotechnology. A survey of 45 production facilities across 29 departments shows that small-scale growers have converged on a practical system for cultivating Limnospira—the cyanobacterium commonly sold…...