6+ hour, 24+ min ago   (71+ words) As global temperatures climb and weather patterns grow increasingly erratic, scientists are turning their attention to some of the smallest organisms on Earth as potential saviors of the world’s food supply. A new thematic collection published in the journal Discover…...

9+ hour, 44+ min ago   (55+ words) Every farmer, grain trader, and food security planner in Europe knows the fear that hangs over a hot, dry summer. The catastrophic growing seasons of 2003 and 2018 showed how compound heat and drought can slash yields across entire continents, and climate…...

10+ hour, 14+ min ago   (730+ words) A sweeping new review published in BMC Agriculture argues that the future of climate-smart farming may lie not in a single miracle microbe, but in the intricate web of relationships that microbes build with one another beneath the surface of…...

11+ hour, 45+ min ago   (95+ words) Farmers have long faced a stubborn trade-off: till the soil deeply enough to loosen compacted layers and boost root growth, and you risk destroying the delicate structure that makes soil fertile in the first place. Now a pair of researchers…...

16+ hour, 20+ min ago   (94+ words) Bacteriophages, the viruses that hunt and kill bacteria, are edging closer to becoming practical weapons against two of the world’s most damaging crop diseases. In a new study published in Microbial Biotechnology, researchers report the systematic design of a phage-based…...