Boost soybean yields by adapting photosynthesis to fleeting shadows, according to model

Komorebi is a Japanese word that describes how light filters through leaves -- creating shifting, dappled "sunflecks" that illustrate plants' ever-changing light environment.

Insect bites and warmer climate means double-trouble for plants

Recent models are telling us that, as our climate warms up, herbivores and pests will cause increased damage to agricultural crops. One study predicted that crop yield lost to insects increases 10 to 25 percent for every 1 degree Celsius increase.

Grain traits traced to 'dark matter' of rice genome

Domesticated rice has fatter seed grains with higher starch content than its wild rice relatives -- the result of many generations of preferential seed sorting and sowing. But even though rice was the first crop to be fully sequenced, scientists have only documented a few of the genetic changes that made rice into a staple food for more than half the world's population.

IAR will soon release Nigerian GMO maize

The preparation to mitigate shortage of maize supply in the country is under way as Institute for Agricultural Research (IAR) will soon release a genetically modified maize variety that is fall army worm and stem borer  resistant, with high yield potential for commercialization.

5200-year-old grains in the eastern Altai Mountains redate trans-Eurasian crop exchange

Most people are familiar with the historical Silk Road, but fewer people realize that the exchange of items, ideas, technology, and human genes through the mountain valleys of Central Asia started almost three millennia before organized trade networks formed.

Large atmospheric waves in the jet stream present risk to global food production

In a new study published today in Nature Climate Change, scientists show how specific wave patterns in the jet stream strongly increase the chance of co-occurring heatwaves in major food producing regions of Northern America, Western Europe and Asia.

CAN repositioning top our priority says the new president

The Newly emerged President, Cocoa Association of Nigeria (CAN) Mr. M.O Abolarinwa has said that the Association would be repositioned to achieve economic competiveness and wealth creation for the stakeholders in the country. Mr. Bolarinwa made this promise during his acceptance speech on behalf of other executives, last week at Ilorin, Kwara State.

Oilpalm: states’ election slates for April says President

The new elected President, National Palm Produce Association of Nigeria (NPPAN Mr. Alphosus Inyang has said the election into the states’ chapter would be conducted between now and April, 2020 as town hall meetings would soon commence for more awareness creation.

Oldest reconstructed bacterial genomes link farming, herding with emergence of new disease

The Neolithic revolution, and the corresponding transition to agricultural and pastoralist lifestyles, represents one of the greatest cultural shifts in human history, and it has long been hypothesized that this might have also provided the opportunity for the emergence of human-adapted diseases.

New strategy to protect wine grapes from smoke-taint

It's a problem plaguing grape-growers worldwide -- in an ever-changing climate, how can they protect their crops from the undesirable effects of wildfire smoke exposure.