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Tag - food security
Nigel Chaffey
Winter is coming, and that’s bad news for food security
Two recent papers take different approaches to the potentially disastrous consequences of loading the stratosphere with ash but combined, they act as a warning for the fragility of food security.
Alun Salt
The future of digital technologies for crops
Cyber physical technologies such as earth observation and biophysical crop modelling can play a major role in production, sustainability, and profitability of production systems in the face of climate change.
Rachel Shekar
SoyFACE for 3D soybean canopy modelling under elevated carbon dioxide
New mathematical model dissects how soybean plants might grow larger in the future.
Juniper Kiss
The poorly known Ethiopian crop Enset
Enset, a relative of the banana, provides the staple food for around 20 million Ethiopians, yet is barely known outside of the region.
Simulated seawater flooding reduces oilseed rape growth, yield and progeny performance
Of the many threats to global food security, one of the most pressing is the increased incidence of extreme weather events. In addition to extreme rainfall, a combination of global sea level rise and storm surge is...
Alex Assiry
Ozone lowers wheat yield by 9%
There were many great articles concerning cross-disciplinary research at the interface between plant biology, mathematics and computer science before the launch in silico Plants (isP). We are excited for isP to be home...
Amaranthus tricolor: eat your greens (and reds and purples)
While leafy green vegetables are wilting under the summer heatwave, the drought and heat tolerant leafy vegetable, amaranth, provides a nutritious alternative.
Rachael Symonds
Meet the real fungi…
Fungi: A Very Short Introduction, by Nicholas P. Money, 2016. Oxford University Press. As much as I would like to think that plants are the most important organisms on planet Earth, even I have to admit that fungi are...
Plants and animals in sexual harmony
Nigel Chaffey discovers that more plants thought to leave pollination to luck possess the power of puppetry.
The Secret Larder of Ancient America
The next big thing on your dinner plate could be plants that were first domesticated five thousand years ago then forgotten about for centuries.
Something in the air? Volatiles influence mollusc attack on seedlings
Although pulmonate molluscs are the principal seedling herbivores in temperate grasslands and agriculture, we understand little about what drives seedling selection. Shannon et al. examined the roles of constitutive...
botanyone
80 shades of plants…
Around the world in 80 plants. Stephen Barstow. 2014. Permanent Publications I normally have to request copies of books to review, but for this one I was invited to review a copy. Suitably intrigued by the book’s title...
