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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 16-Sep-2025 20:11 ET (17-Sep-2025 00:11 GMT/UTC)

16-Sep-2025

Sustainable, plant-based diet benefits both human and planetary health

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.

Journal: PLOS Medicine

16-Sep-2025

Study highlights importance of dedicated exits for vulnerable populations in building evacuations

Nanjing Agricultural University The Academy of Science

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.

Journal: Plant Phenomics

16-Sep-2025

Wheat: Extreme dwarfism impairs gluten composition and baking quality

Leibniz-Institut für Lebensmittel-Systembiologie an der TU München
Peer-Reviewed Publication

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.

Journal: Food Science & Nutrition
Funder: This study was supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Dr. Matías Schierenbeck) and by core funding from the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research. Open access funding was enabled and organized by Project DEAL.

16-Sep-2025

Can vertical farms really feed the UK sustainably? New study weighs climate costs and benefits

University of Surrey
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Vertical farming offers a much-needed opportunity to secure food production in the face of climate change, but can it truly deliver a sustainable alternative to field-grown crops? A new study led by the University of Surrey has found that while vertical farms dramatically increase lettuce yields and use far less water, the carbon footprint still exceeds traditional lettuce farming – raising important questions about how the UK can balance food security with environmental responsibility.

Journal: Food and Energy Security

15-Sep-2025

Wheat disease losses total $2.9 billion across the United States and Canada between 2018 and 2021

American Phytopathological Society
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new multiyear study has revealed that between 2018 and 2021, wheat diseases caused the loss of approximately 560 million bushels—valued at US$2.9 billion, or $18.10 per acre, in farmer revenue—across 29 U.S. states and Ontario, Canada.

Journal: Plant Health Progress
Funder: Grain Farmers of Ontario, National Institute of Food and Agriculture, National Institute of Food and Agriculture

15-Sep-2025

Cheaper, sustainable plant biomanufacturing on Earth and in space

University of California - Davis
Grant and Award Announcement

Researchers at UC Davis have been awarded a $3 million National Science Foundation grant to develop new technologies and workforce training programs to grow plants in low-resource environments both on Earth and in space.

Funder: U.S. National Science Foundation

15-Sep-2025

AI TechX awards seed funding to find AI solutions to real-world problems

University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Grant and Award Announcement

Nine projects led by faculty at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, will receive the first round of funding from AI TechX, a new initiative created by UT to empower Tennessee communities and industry partners to adopt AI technologies that enable high-quality job creation.