Accelerating Plant Growth With Film That Converts UV Light to Red Light
Plastic sheets coated with an Eu3+ film that converts UV light to red light were able to accelerate the growth of vegetal plants and trees. Scientists…
Plastic sheets coated with an Eu3+ film that converts UV light to red light were able to accelerate the growth of vegetal plants and trees. Scientists…
Crops often grow under unfavorable conditions. Factors such as disease, extreme temperatures, and salty soils force plants to use energy to respond to the resulting…
The ongoing drought has cut rice acreage in the Sacramento Valley in half. Normally the largest rice-growing region in California, the Sacramento Valley produces hundreds…
The duplication of a transporter gene reduces toxic cadmium accumulation in rice without harming quality or yield, according to the researchers. Rice is a staple food…
Livestock and fish could be fed more agricultural by-products, freeing up more food for people. Even with millions around the world facing the threat of…
The research sheds new light on the mechanisms by which the adoption of agriculture led to complex hierarchies and states. By theoretical arguments and empirical…
NASA Harvest scientists use satellite observations and economic data to track how the Russia-Ukraine conflict is disrupting the global food system. When farmers in Ukraine…
Startup company has developed an optical milk scanner based on materials-sensing technology that dairy farmers can use to measure the health of their cows. Around…
The discovery will help develop heat-tolerant crops and improve algal biofuel production Plants, like all other known organisms, utilize DNA to pass on traits. Animal…
Experts detail the abundance of diverse “unconventional water sources.” Tapping a fraction can help meet fast-growing global freshwater needs. UN and partner water experts say…
Tomatoes that have been gene-edited to produce vitamin D, known as the sunshine vitamin, could be a simple and sustainable innovation to address a worldwide…
“Just shrinking the size of our current food system won’t cut emissions much. Instead, we need to transform the very nature of that global food…
An international team of scientists has discovered a way to produce higher quality wheat. The researchers from the University of Adelaide and the UK’s John…
Biologist Xinnian Dong says her “best Christmas gift ever” arrived in the form of a phone call. The call was from her longtime friend and…
When plants are faced with conditions that are too dry, salty, or cold, most of them try to conserve resources. They send out fewer leaves…
Substituting 20% of meat from cattle with microbial protein — a meat alternative produced in fermentation tanks — by 2050 could halve deforestation, a new…
To assess how climate warming will change risks such as crop failures and wildfires, it’s necessary to look at how the risks are likely to…
A protein that permits the fungus that causes white mold stem rot in over 600 plant species to overcome plant defenses has been identified by…