15+ hour, 29+ min ago   (694+ words) Wheat may owe part of its hidden armor to an unlikely ally growing beside it. A new glasshouse study published in Plant and Soil shows that when wheat plants share a pot with chickpea, they accumulate significantly more silicon in…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (87+ words) Wheat feeds more of humanity than almost any other crop, and the pressure on it has never been greater. Meeting projected global demand by 2050 will require annual productivity gains of roughly 1.7 percent, with total production expected to rise from about…...

13+ hour, 28+ min ago   (74+ words) Sorghum has long lived in the shadow of wheat, rice, maize, and barley, ranking fifth among the world’s cereals with global production of roughly 61 million tons. Yet a sweeping new review published in the Journal of Agriculture and Food Research…...

22+ hour, 19+ min ago   (682+ words) Oil flax has quietly become one of the most strategically important crops on the Eurasian steppe, prized both for its omega-3-rich seed oil and for the cellulose-dense bast fiber hidden in its stems....

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (98+ words) Ethiopian wheat breeders have turned one of the most stubborn problems in agriculture—the fact that a crop variety that thrives in one field can flop in another—into a solved equation, at least for the country’s low-altitude wheat belt....

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (100+ words) A newly reported Indian mustard variety is being positioned for a very specific but important agricultural window: timely sowing under irrigated conditions in north-western and central India. Named Pusa Mustard 37, the line is described as an “extra-bold seeded” variety in…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (518+ words) A corporate merger can make medicines cheaper to produce without making them cheaper to buy....