Sustainability News

  1. New Data Shows That Crops Like Wheat, Coffee, Beans And Cassava Could Lose Half Of The Best Land For Growing Them By 2100 6/5/2025

    The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has upgraded its innovative ABC-Map geospatial app with a new indicator which shows that several major crops including wheat, coffee, beans, cassava, and plantain could lose half their best or optimally suitable land by 2100.

  2. A Threesome That Hatches Potato Parasites 6/4/2025

    Potatoes produce a molecule that is converted by microbes and causes potato parasites to hatch. The Kobe University discovery of this three-way relationship not only adds a new perspective to how plants interact with their environment, it also opens an avenue for developing countermeasures against the parasite.

  3. Kubota Partners With Agtonomy To Advance Autonomous Operations On M5N Tractors For Specialty Crop Growers 6/3/2025

    Kubota North America today announced a strategic collaboration with Agtonomy, a leader in agricultural autonomy software, to commercialize autonomous operations on Kubota diesel tractors for spraying and mowing.

  4. FMC Corporation And Corteva Agriscience Collaborate To Provide Fluindapyr Fungicide Technology To More U.S. Growers 6/3/2025

    FMC Corporation (NYSE: FMC), a leading global agricultural sciences company, today announced a strategic agreement with Corteva Agriscience that will expand FMC's fluindapyr fungicide technology in the U.S. corn and soybean markets.

  5. Weed Infestations Impact Tennessee Row Crop Production 6/3/2025

    The 2025 growing season is in full swing, and weed control remains a top concern for row crop producers. Experts at the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture are continuing to provide research-based recommendations to help farmers manage infestations and stay ahead of increasing herbicide resistance.

  6. Fungal Protein Critical To Causing Fusarium Head Blight In Cereal Crops Revealed 6/3/2025

    The destructive fungal pathogen Fusarium graminearum uses a specialized protein to weaken plant immune defences and cause Fusarium head blight (FHB), a devastating disease that severely damages wheat and barley crops worldwide, according to a new study recently published in the journal Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions.

  7. Plant Science: Precision Breeding Takes Another Step Forwards 6/2/2025

    Secondary legislation to allow the production of precision-bred crops in England has been passed by the UK’s Parliament.

  8. Future-Proofing Agriculture: Scientists Look To Biotechnology To Improve Crop Resilience And Nutritional Value 6/2/2025

    A new project, co-led by Dr Joshua James and Professor Patrick Cai of the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology at The University of Manchester, in collaboration with researchers here at the John Innes Centre and at the Earlham Institute, will look at how engineering biology technologies can be developed and used to help feed a growing population while protecting crops against climate change-related catastrophes and pests.

  9. Drought-Fighting Soil Bacteria Helping Wheat Beat The Heat 5/30/2025

    Western Sydney University researchers have discovered that drought affected wheat plants are able to call on eco-friendly soil bacteria to survive, helping keep crops healthy, boost yields, and provide pathways to develop extreme weather resistant crops.

  10. Scientists Find A New Way To Help Plants Fight Diseases 5/29/2025

    In a discovery three decades in the making, scientists at Rutgers and Brookhaven National Laboratory have acquired detailed knowledge about the internal structures and mode of regulation for a specialized protein and are proceeding to develop tools that can capitalize on its ability to help plants combat a wide range of diseases.