“Ancient relationship” between fungi and plant roots creates genetic expression that leads to more root growth. Common fungus could one day be used...
A passion for fungi led Cambridge mycologist Dr Dillon Weston to ever-more inventive means of trapping fungal spores, even from the open window of an...
Seventy five years ago, the publication of John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath shocked the world with its description of starvation in the...
Leading plant scientists have called for major changes to the way GM crops are licensed.
Viruses alter plant biochemistry in order to manipulate visiting aphids into spreading infection
A breakthrough in understanding the evolutionary pathways along which some crops have become significantly more productive than others may help...
Insect pollinators provide a service worth an estimated £430 million to food, farming and retail sectors in the UK. How can we protect them, and...
Worldwide 500 million smallholder farmers support a total of 2 billion people. A debate taking place in London next Monday (28 January) will put...
With the world’s population already estimated to be over seven billion and rising fast, the challenge of how to produce enough food has never been...
New models are being developed to predict how changing land use in the tropics could affect future climate, air quality and crop production.
The Corn Returns – market data from the 19th century and beyond – represent a valuable resource for economic historians looking at the emergence of...
A group of students on the University of Cambridge’s MPhil course in Engineering for Sustainable Development has devised a project that will help...
