UBC researchers have developed a natural, biodegradable wash that removed up to 96 per cent of pesticide residue and slowed browning and moisture loss in tested apples and grapes.

As climate change intensifies and global food security faces pressures, accurate monitoring of crop phenology—especially sowing dates—has become critical for optimizing agricultural management and improving climate resilience. Winter wheat, a staple crop supporting nearly 40% of the global population, relies heavily on timely sowing to maximize yield potential. However, traditional monitoring methods such as field surveys are labor-intensive and unscalable, while existing remote sensing approaches suffer from soil background interference and static environmental data limitations.  

The novel sh2isu1 sweet corn germplasm resource perfectly addresses the issues of insufficient flavor in super sweet maize and low sugar content in common sweet corn. Its excellent characteristics can directly serve the high-end specialty maize breeding system.

Polyploidy, or whole-genome doubling, is one of evolution's most powerful forces in plants, yet its real-world consequences in natural populations remain poorly understood. 

Most aquaculture species have long maturation periods that limit breeding efficiency. Here, researchers from the Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, report in Science China Life Sciences with a cover story of an ultra-fast surrogate reproduction strategy: female germline stem cells from grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idellus), a species requiring ~5 years to mature and >20× longer and ~20,000× heavier than zebrafish, were transplanted into zebrafish (~3 cm, 3-month maturation), producing all-female grass carp within just three months, dramatically shortening the breeding cycle.