Current Headlines

  1. New Ideas For Improving Photosynthesis In Agricultural Environments 12/17/2025

    For decades, boosting photosynthesis in crops has been viewed as a scientific holy grail. Yet photosynthesis does not operate in isolation: it is tightly interwoven with environmental factors—light, CO₂, soil nitrogen, and water—as well as the plant’s own internal regulatory networks.

  2. Tracing A Path Through Photosynthesis To Food Security 12/15/2025

    The energy that plants capture from sunlight through photosynthesis provides the source of nearly all of humanity’s food.

  3. Researchers Revive Old Pea Varieties In Huge Seed Collection: 'An Untapped Gold Mine For The Future' 12/15/2025

    Using a new AI method, researchers from the University of Copenhagen have rediscovered 51 old pea varieties that are no longer used in agriculture but may prove promising for the production of plant-based foods.

  4. Chinese Scientists Reveal How Isoflavone 6-Hydroxylase Mediates Soybean Resistance To Phytophthora sojae 12/12/2025

    Researchers from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have uncovered the long-elusive biosynthetic pathway of glycitein, a key soybean isoflavonoid.

  5. Danforth Plant Science Center To Lead Multi-Disciplinary Research To Enhance Stress Resilience In Bioenergy Sorghum 12/10/2025

    Andrea Eveland, Ph.D., Principal Investigator and member at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, will lead a multi-institutional project to deepen the understanding of sorghum, a versatile bioenergy crop, and its response to environmental challenges.

  6. NewLeaf Vegetable Transplant Technology Launches In California 12/10/2025

    Growers transplanting vegetables from the greenhouse to the field now have an additional tool to prepare for the unexpected during critical periods of transplant stress.

  7. Farmers Edge Announces Corvian — A New Enterprise Technology Division Built To Accelerate Digital Transformation Across Agriculture And Sustainable Supply Chains 12/10/2025

    Farmers Edge Inc. today announced the launch of Corvian, a new enterprise technology division built to modernize systems, align data, and enable large-scale digital execution.

  8. BioLumic Expands Light-Activated Seed Trait Platform To South America 12/9/2025

    BioLumic, the only agricultural biotechnology company that programs heritable seed traits using light, today announced steps to expand its Corn xTraits Licensing Program into South America.

  9. NUS Scientists Create Microneedle System To Deliver Biofertiliser Directly Into Plants, Boosting Growth With Less Waste 12/9/2025

    Researchers at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed dissolving microneedle patches that deliver living “biofertiliser” straight into plant tissue.

  10. Myosin XI-1: A Key Molecular Target For Salt-Tolerant Crops 12/8/2025

    Salt stress is a major factor that impairs plant growth and yield. In a breakthrough, researchers from Waseda University have revealed that Arabidopsis thaliana myosin XI-1—a member of the motor protein myosin XI—significantly regulates adaptation to salt stress via intracellular sodium ion (Na⁺) homeostasis.