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Apr. 19, 2023 What if, by adding a couple of cell layers inside a corn kernel, the grain could become significantly richer in essential nutrients like iron, zinc, and protein? Such an improvement could benefit ...
July 13, 2021 A study finds middle- to older-aged adults who ate more servings of whole grains, compared to those who ate fewer, were more likely to have smaller increases in waist size, blood pressure, and blood ...
May 19, 2021 The amount of nutrients people get from the crops that they eat is a type of 'postcode lottery', according to new research that has analysed thousands of cereal grains and soils as part of ...
June 9, 2022 Researchers have found a species of worm with an appetite for polystyrene could be the key to plastic recycling on a mass ...
June 14, 2022 Over the years, the domestication of grasses like wheat, rice, barley, and sorghum for consumption has resulted in certain modifications to their morphology. One such modification is the partial or ...
Jan. 6, 2023 New research has uncovered that pollen preserved in 250 million year old rocks contain compounds that function like sunscreen, these are produced by plants to protect them from harmful ultraviolet ...
Dec. 7, 2021 Armillaria ostoyae is a gnarly parasitic fungus with long black tentacles that spread out and attack vegetation. Not much was known about what makes fungus so hard to kill -- until now. A team of ...
Sep. 19, 2022 Reorganizing food production systems to direct more agricultural byproducts and residues to animal feed would free enough material in feed about one billion people without requiring additional ...
Sep. 9, 2022 Scientists have known that sex-determination in vertebrates happens in the germ cells, a body's reproductive cells, and the somatic cells, the cells that are not reproductive cells. Yet they ...
Apr. 11, 2022 New research challenges the conventional theory that the transition from foraging to farming drove the development of complex, hierarchical societies by creating agricultural surplus in areas of ...