Heavy metal contamination in agricultural soils is a growing global threat — but scientists may have found a sustainable solution.

Scientists have uncovered how the plant hormone auxin helps roots bend and downwards towards gravity – a process called gravitropism - even after encountering obstacles in soil. 

Tomatoes, one of the world's most important horticultural crops, often struggle to grow in saline soils that limit yields and quality. 

Award-winning Swansea University spin-out company Bionema Group Ltd has been awarded a major funding boost from Innovate UK.

Antimicrobial resistance has become one of the top global public health and development threats due to the misuse and overuse of antimicrobials in humans, animals, and plants. Researchers are leveraging artificial intelligence and interdisciplinary approaches to design antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) that show a reduced risk of inducing resistance. Precise targeting design makes AMPs more efficient for combating drug-resistant bacteria and fungi, with applications spanning medicine, agriculture, and food safety.

New research reveals “unprecedented” conservation results of community-based management of protected areas in the Amazon - as many face a future in which they may become increasingly degraded due to low enforcement of regulations, growing external encroachment and competition for resources.

The rain delays, sorghum withers; when a storm finally breaks, complaints rise again. To break this cycle of uncertainty, scientists from the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, INERA, and the University of Ghana conducted the first large-scale survey on agricultural climate services in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali, and Senegal. Published in Frontiers in Climate, the study analyzes the expectations of 1,212 farmers and charts a credible path to turn weather reports into a profitable investment.