A recent paper published in SCIENCE CHINA Earth Sciences presents an improved pDSSAT model based on the Wang-Engel temperature response function and further analyses the spatiotemporal changes in winter wheat phenology in China from 2000 to 2015 and its climatic drivers.

Reported in three major soybean-producing countries in South America (Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay), Cercospora leaf blight (CLB) is a global threat to soybean. CLB causes dark-purple lesions on leaves and premature defoliation, which can diminish soybean production.

A team of scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, US, has developed a ‘smart’ food packaging material that is biodegradable, sustainable and kills microbes that are harmful to humans. It could also extend the shelf-life of fresh fruit by two to three days.