The field of agro-morphological and nutritional profiling of crops is critical in addressing global food security and nutrition challenges. Despite significant advancements, approximately 2.3 billion ...

The agricultural sector extensively depends on finite resources and materials, including growing media, mulching agents, and mineral fertilizers, the latter ...

Regenerative farming practices such as soil-building techniques that minimize plowing, use cover crops, and plant diverse crops positively affect the nutritional content of the food, claims research.

ST. LOUIS, MO, June 6, 2023 – In collaboration with researchers at Purdue and Hamline Universities, Ivan Baxter, PhD, member, at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center will lead a four-year, $2.5 ...

Climate-resilient crops can stabilize food production under climate stress and, when combined with biofortification, improve human nutrition by protecting both yield and micronutrient intake. However, ...

Crop diversification is an important part of achieving nutrition security; the risks of reliance on a single crop are immense. Sub-Saharan Africa, suggests a new study in Nature Food, must diversify ...

Global climate variability and evolving agronomic practices have intensified research into optimising fruit quality and yield in tree crops. Integrative approaches now combine precise crop monitoring, ...

Two of humanity's biggest problems - the climate crisis and abysmal eating habits - can partly be solved by one healthy solution: eating more food from trees, specifically tropical ones. While global ...

Vegetatively propagated crops (VPCs) and horticultural tree crops (HTCs) play an important role in food security and income and represent significant agricultural opportunities in most countries of ...