Researchers, led by a team at Bigelow Laboratory, have developed environmental DNA tools to measure kelp deposition and examine the biological communities living in sediments below Gulf of Maine kelp farms, which could help inform carbon dioxide removal efforts.

Plants must defend themselves against relentless insect herbivores. 

Winter climate change is affecting the carbon exchange of northern coniferous forests, but the response depends upon reindeer grazing, according to a new study from the University of Oulu, Finland. The study compared areas with ongoing reindeer grazing to areas where grazing has been excluded for 25 years at Oulanka and as long as 55 years at Kevo.

A diet focused on healthy plant-based foods may lower the risk of type 2 diabetes while reducing greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new study by Solomon Sowah and colleagues from the MRC Epidemiology Unit at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, published September 16^th in the open-access journal PLOS Medicine.

A research team has demonstrated how advanced drone-based thermal imaging can be used to more accurately measure canopy temperature (CT) in wheat fields by disentangling experimental signals from environmental and technical noise.

Wheat is one of the world's most important staple foods, especially in the form of bread. A joint study by the Leibniz Institute for Food Systems Biology at the Technical University of Munich (LSB) and the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) now shows that extremely dwarf wheat has a less favorable gluten composition than semi-dwarf, dwarf, or tall wild type wheat, and therefore produces flour with poorer baking properties.