Cereals

Cereals

Guidelines for handling living biostimulant products for seed treatment
- Living biostimulant products, or biologicals, are marketed to growers for crop enhancement. The handling of these products during preparation likely introduces microbial contamination prior to...
The TaCOMT1A?Synthesised Sakuranetin Is a Novel Biostimulant Enhancing Drought Tolerance and Yield in Wheat
- ABSTRACTDrought stress is a major limitation to global wheat production. Here, we demonstrate that the wheat gene TaCOMT1A, encoding a caffeic acid O?methyltransferase, plays a crucial role in...
Grain Expansion in China's Drylands Secures Food but Intensifies Environmental Trade?Offs
05/08/2026 - AbstractDrylands are increasingly crucial for global food supply, and grain cultivation there continues to expand. Newly cultivated croplands in these regions are often assumed to be biophysically...
Scientific assessment of the 2024 post?market environmental monitoring report on the cultivation of genetically modified maize MON 810 in the EU
- AbstractAt the request of the European Commission, EFSA assessed the 2024 post?market environmental monitoring (PMEM) report on the cultivation of genetically modified maize MON 810, which expresses...
Food Sovereignty and Agroecology in Conflict Zones: Building Resilience Amidst Crisis
- Armed conflict damages farmland, displaces communities, disrupts markets, and intensifies food scarcity. Food sovereignty and community?led agroecology, including local control of land, seeds, water,...
Forecasting Wholesale Prices of Canchan potatoes using artificial intelligence models with data from the Ministry of Agrarian Development and Irrigation of Peru (2020–2025)
- Accurately forecasting agricultural prices is a critical factor for stabilizing markets and optimizing decision-making across supply chains. This paper proposes a supervised machine learning...
Substituting fertigation with swine liquid manure maintains tomato performance while enhancing dissolved nutrient pools
- Synthetic nitrogen (N) fertilization accounts for ~2.1% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Transitioning to a circular nutrient economy requires replacing synthetic inputs with recycled substrates....
Two-spot cotton leafhopper (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae): biology, rapid invasion, potential seconomic impact, and integrated control measures
07/08/2026 - The polyphagous, invasive, 2-spot cotton leafhopper, Amrasca biguttula (Ishida) (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) is a new threat to US agriculture. Preliminary projections based on reported losses from...
Comparative Quality of Garden Strawberries (Fragaria × ananassa Duch. cv. Albion) Produced in Soil and Soilless Sustainable Urban Systems
- ABSTRACTIntroduction/MaterialsModern agriculture faces the challenge of balancing high crop yields with sustainable resource management and nutritional quality. Here, soil and soilless systems...
Characterizing How Community?Level Plant Functional Traits Impact Soil Microbial Diversity
- ABSTRACTIntroductionFunctional trait?based approaches have been suggested for designing functionally diverse plant communities to influence soil microbial community structure and diversity. However,...
Evaluating Biostimulant Products for Wheat Production in Weathered Soils and Dry Environments
- Evaluating biostimulant efficacy under optimal to challenging environments in wheatABSTRACTThe need to reduce reliance on synthetic fertilisers has intensified interest in biostimulants and organic...
Co?Flowering Plant Species in a Glasshouse Boost Both Strawberry Production and Bee Health
- Integrating co?flowering plants into glasshouse strawberry systems creates a “win?win” synergy where floral diversification enhances stingless bee vitality and crop visitation. This approach...
Beneath the Bark: Molecular Determinants of Adaptation and Infection in Bacterial Pathogens of Woody Hosts
- Bacterial pathogens colonise woody hosts by integrating metabolic adaptation, effector?mediated immune suppression, cell wall remodelling and EPS? and toxin?supported persistence.ABSTRACTBacterial...
Root and shoot phenotyping elucidate plant growth?promoting microorganisms effects on wheat under water deficit
- AbstractWater scarcity represents a major constraint to crop productivity, increasing interest in sustainable strategies such as plant growth?promoting microorganisms (PGPM). This study investigated...
Paving the Way for Plant?Based Bioproduction of (Z)?13?Octadecenoic Moth Pheromone Compounds
- ABSTRACTSex pheromones are eco?friendly agents to control pest insects. Yet, the cost of synthetic pheromone production has restricted their use essentially to high value crops. Plant?based...
Haplotypes and Machine Learning Improve Genomic Prediction in Brassica napus
- ABSTRACTGenomic selection (GS) is a crop and livestock improvement method suited for predicting complex agronomical traits, while genomic prediction (GP) is the development of GS models prior to...
Setting of import tolerance for folpet in bananas and modification of the existing maximum residue level in honey
- AbstractIn accordance with Article 6 of Regulation (EC) No 396/2005, the applicant ADAMA Agriculture BV submitted a request to the competent national authority in Austria to set an import tolerance...
Peer review of the pesticide risk assessment of the active substance 8?methyldecan?2?yl propanoate
- AbstractThe conclusions of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) following the peer review of the initial risk assessments carried out by the competent authority of the rapporteur Member State...