Cereals

Examining Food Self?Sufficiency and Food Security in Nepal Amidst High Rates of Migration

08/07/2026 - AbstractThe emergence of global food trade has ameliorated food insecurity in several countries as food imports supplement the dietary demands of a country's population. At the same time, migration...

Laser?Enabled Biotechnology Platforms for Climate?Resilient Crop Production: Mechanistic Insights and Future Prospects

- ABSTRACTClimate change poses a major threat to global food security through extreme weather events, expanding pathogen ranges, and increased agrochemical dependency. This review highlights the...

Identification of Wheat Sulfotransferase Genes and Functional Analysis of TaSOT48 Regulatory Responses to Biotic and Abiotic Stress Conditions

- ABSTRACTSulfotransferases (SOTs) catalyze sulfate conjugation and contribute to diverse biochemical processes in plants. In this study, 112 wheat SOT genes were identified and characterized through...

Soil Microbiota and Rhizosphere Dynamics: Ecological Mechanisms Driving Crop Stress Adaptation in Climate?Smart Agriculture

- ABSTRACTClimate change?mediated abiotic stresses limit crop performance, and plant responses are increasingly recognized as emergent properties of the coupling between soil, plants, and microbiomes...

Farmland electronic maps and digital archives for drip-irrigated wheat-maize rotation: technologies, applications, and future perspectives

- The drip-irrigated wheat–maize rotation system is an important cultivation system for improving water-use efficiency, maintaining soil moisture, and ensuring stable crop production in arid and...

A systems-based situational analysis of Bambara groundnut production and adoption in South Africa

- Neglected and underutilized species (NUS), also referred to as opportunity crops, such as Bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea (L.) Verdc.), should be promoted within food systems to enhance...

Vertical farming economics: crop performance targets for cost-competitive vertical farming

- Vertical farming may offer a scalable solution to land, water, and climate constraints in agriculture, yet its viability hinges on reducing energy and capital costs. Despite these promises, the...

Understanding soil carbon storage mechanisms to support sustainable intensification of pasture-based livestock systems in Brazil

- Brazilian livestock production is predominantly based on pastures, characterized by extensive management and low forage productivity. To increase forage and livestock productivity while enhancing...

Ensembling Crop Models and Multi Criteria Analysis to Unlock Bioenergy From Marginal Lands: A Scenario?Based Assessment From Italy

- Multi?Criteria Analysis to identify marginal land on which three crops (Safflower, castor bean, and Ethiopian mustard) were simulated with two process?based models (DSSAT, ARMOSA) under two different...

Genetics of Flooding Tolerance in an F2 Miscanthus sacchariflorus ssp. lutarioriparius × M. sinensis Population

- An experiment to map flooding tolerance in Miscanthus ×giganteus was conducted. Two phenotyping protocols (A and B) and different pipelines to call SNPs were used. TASSEL?GBSv2 resulted in a genetic...

PlantModules.jl: a framework for modular plant modelling

29/06/2026 - Plant models are essential for understanding the mechanisms underlying complex plant processes and for predicting growth under varying environmental conditions. They play a central role in plant...

19. How does cattle grazing of corn residues affect soil health in the long term?.

10/07/2026 - Corn residue grazing is widely practiced in beef production systems in the western corn belt; however, most studies evaluating its impacts on soil health have been short term ( < 5?yr) and...

Surveying hosts of Drosophila suzukii (Diptera: Drosophilidae) and Leptopilina japonica (Hymenoptera: Figitidae) in non-crop habitat with Master Gardeners in North Carolina

07/07/2026 - Landscape configuration plays a critical role in pest–predator dispersal in agricultural areas. Particularly, the presence of alternative hosts can influence both pest and predator populations. On...

Complete Chloroplast Genome of Indonesian Sugarcane (Saccharum ‘Bululawang’): Comparative, Structural, and Evolutionary Analysis of Photosystem I?Encoding Genes

- ABSTRACTSugarcane is one of the most important crops, providing the majority of global sugar production and serving as a major feedstock for bioenergy. Increasing demands for sustainable sugar...

Glomus iranicum var. Tenuihypharum as a Biofertilizer Modulates Soil Microbial Community Composition and Enhances Soil Carbon Dynamics in Nectarine Cultivation

- ABSTRACTThe development of biofertilization strategies based on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) represents a promising approach to enhance crop productivity and soil health while reducing the...

Mechanism driving efficient organic acid synthesis by agricultural waste epiphytic microbiota in anaerobic co-fermentation

- Fuente: Industrial crops and products

Revisiting the foundation era of plant genomics with a commentary on the pioneering contributions of Prof. Chittaranjan Kole

- AbstractThe evolution of plant genomics has been shaped by several pioneering milestones, beginning with the introduction of restriction fragment length polymorphism–based genetic linkage maps in...

Plant responses to iron nutrition with emphasis on the underutilized crop tef (Eragrostis tef): A review

- Iron (Fe) deficiency limits the physical health, cognitive development, and economic output of billions of people globally, especially children and productive?age women. Tef is an underutilized and...

Field evaluation of spring wheat genotypes reveals differential resistance to Zymoseptoria tritici in Ethiopia

10/07/2026 - Septoria tritici blotch (STB), caused by Zymoseptoria tritici, is a...

Silver Y Moth Caterpillars detected in crops – advice on identification, monitoring and control

- Over the past 7–10 days, there have been increasing reports of caterpillar feeding in crops of spring beans, sugar beet and maize, Lousie McNamara, Michael Gaffney and Ciaran Collins share key...

Breeding drought-tolerant crops for sustainable agriculture

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