Crops

Scientists are in a battle to keep the world’s food supply dependable, and new research into crop genomes is helping to lead the way

New sensing techniques can detect drought tolerance in ancient relatives of wheat and barley. Making it possible to use these traits to breed new food crops for a warmer world

Discovering chemicals that affect plant circadian rhythms could improve crop yields – bringing us a step closer to ‘chronoculture’

The spread of Xf bacteria is a huge threat to global agriculture, but research is enhancing our capacity to detect it in crops using airborne monitoring

Researchers have bred smaller soybean plants with the same yield, raising the possibility that smaller crops could grow more food from less land in our changing climate

University of Melbourne researchers are redesigning wheat to create healthier versions of one of the world’s favourite foods – bread

Traditional knowledge from the Andes is inspiring research on quinoa flowering to develop future breeding programs

A new study finds that climate extremes, like heatwaves and droughts, are impacting the food we get from crops. By understanding these effects we can better plan for climate change

How do plants sense and respond to the world around them - and do they listen when we talk?

An international study has calculated how much good old-fashioned animal poo increases crop growth and reduces pollution, benefiting the bank balance and the environment