Latest Food Headlines

31. XAG Drones Give Brazilian Farmers The Edge Amid Unpredictable Weather 9/24/2025

    As planting season begins across Brazil, farmers are facing the dual challenge of unpredictable weather and tight labor.

32. Breakthrough Discovery Offers Hope Against Devastating Groundnut Disease 9/24/2025

    In a study published in the Plant Genome journal, ICRISAT and partners mapped 13 genomic regions and 145 candidate genes linked to stem rot resistance.

33. Gene Editing, Traditional Crossbreeding Produce Disease-Resistant Cacao Plants 9/23/2025

    In a development that could help protect one of the world's most beloved agricultural commodities, a research team at Penn State has successfully created disease-resistant cacao plants using gene-editing technology.

34. IFT's Global Food Traceability Center Launches New Tool To Accelerate Global Scalable Traceability 9/23/2025

    IFT’s Global Food Traceability Center, an internationally recognized leader in advancing end-to-end food traceability, has launched an open source tool to strengthen interoperability across the food value chain.

35. Bananas From Costa Rica Are Distinguished Worldwide By Innovation And Sustainability 9/22/2025

    Known for its lush landscapes, paradisiacal beaches, and rich biodiversity, Costa Rica has far more to offer than natural beauty.

36. LEDs Shed Light On Efficient Tomato Cultivation 9/19/2025

    Researchers including those from the University of Tokyo have successfully grown large tomatoes and cherry tomatoes, both rich in nutrients, in tightly controlled environments where the light source was energy-efficient LEDs.

37. Hot Air Drying Largely Preserves Nutritional Composition Of Radish Microgreens 9/19/2025

    Cruciferous vegetables like radish, broccoli and kale offer significant health benefits, especially when they are consumed as microgreens, or as young seedlings harvested early.

38. Texas A&M AgriLife Tackles Rice Delphacid Devastation 9/18/2025

    Texas A&M AgriLife experts are serving as key research and Extension partners in a new multistate response led by USA Rice to address the devastating spread of rice delphacid, an invasive pest now threatening thousands of acres across Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and Mississippi.

39. John Innes Enterprises And Traitomic Announce Strategic Collaboration To Accelerate Crop Improvement 9/18/2025

    John Innes Enterprises Ltd (JIE), the commercial arm of the John Innes Centre, and Traitomic A/S, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Carlsberg Breweries A/S, have announced a new collaboration to harness world-class plant science and advanced genetic screening technologies to improve key crops including oat, oilseed rape, pea, and fava bean.

40. PlantArcBio Secures U.S. And South Korea Patents For DIPPER™ Platform, Advancing Gene-Editing Optimization In Crops 9/18/2025

    PlantArcBio (TASE: PLNT) is pleased to announce that it has been granted patents in the United States and South Korea for its proprietary DIPPER™ platform, a breakthrough technology designed to optimize gene expression for gene-editing processes in crops.