3+ hour, 25+ min ago   (82+ words) A sweeping analysis of India’s plant variety protection records has revealed a remarkable story of grassroots innovation: individual farmers, not corporations or government research institutions, are the country’s most prolific registrants of new plant varieties. Researchers from the Indian Council…...

5+ hour, 45+ min ago   (679+ words) Rice feeds more than half of humanity, yet it is also one of the world’s thirstiest staple crops, and climate change is making every drop of water count for more....

6+ hour, 3+ 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…...

9+ hour, 48+ min ago   (87+ words) Wheat feeds more of humanity than almost any other crop, and the pressure on it has never been greater. Meeting projected global demand by 2050 will require annual productivity gains of roughly 1.7 percent, with total production expected to rise from about…...

10+ hour, 44+ 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…...