Sweet sorghum has multipurpose post-harvest uses. It can produce grains, animal feed and sugary juice, making it unique among crops.
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Cassava’s many assets would seem to make it the ideal crop, except for one drawback: It’s highly poisonous. Human ingenuity has made cassava edible for millennia.
Redesigning agricultural landscapes to plant fire-retardant crops could help mitigate wildfires in an increasingly fire-prone world.
Australia is the last continent to be invaded by the dangerous honey bee parasite, and has an opportunity to be the first to eradicate it.
As with so many staples and foods in the past two years – lettuce, milk and eggs to name a few – the problem is a temporary imbalance between supply and demand. Here’s what’s happening with potatoes.
Climate change is affecting the availability of food to the families of farmers in Ghana.
Plants have evolved several ways to deal with heavy metals that might otherwise poison or kill them.
Rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere may be a boon for maize crops in tropical growing regions like those found in much of Africa.
The African BioGenome Project is a pan-African project that seeks to sequence Africa’s endemic and indigenous plants and animals.
Marine fish could serve as a crucial global emergency food supply in times of crisis, if marine ecosystems were in a healthy state to start with.
Plant diseases require as much attention now as ever to ensure that food systems are in place in the next season. There are also serious implications for forestry and the environment more broadly.
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Professor, ANU Bee lab, Australian National University
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PhD Student in Agriscience, Stellenbosch University
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Senior Lecturer in Grazing Lands Ecology, Lincoln University, New Zealand
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Research Fellow, School of Biological Sciences, Monash University
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Bioinformatician, European Bioinformatics Institute
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PhD Candidate in Environmental Studies, York University, Canada
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Research Professor, Experimental Sciences & Mathematics, ICREA; McGill University
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Director of the Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute and Future Africa, University of Pretoria
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Lecturer, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney
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Professor, Department of Botany, Rhodes University
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ARC Early Career Research Fellow, Social Insect Ecology, Macquarie University
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Extra-ordinary Professor, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute, University of Pretoria
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Professor, University of Edinburgh
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Stockholm University
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Lecturer & Research Fellow, Western Sydney University