Recent discovery of the Ug99 wheat stem rust strain in Nepal has once again emphasised the need for vigilance to protect Nepal’s third most important food crop from any large-scale outbreaks of this devastating wheat disease

A major international study has explained how bread wheat helped to transform the ancient world on its path to becoming the iconic crop that today sustains a global population of eight billion

A new cutting-edge  food research programme which brings together world-leading researchers from institutions across Ireland and the UK to tackle food system transformation has been launched

Bacteria make up more than 10% of all living things but until recently we had little realization that, as in humans, soil bacteria have internal clocks that synchronize their activities with the 24-hour cycles of day and night on Earth

An international team of researchers has fully sequenced the genome of a climate resilient bean that could bolster food security in drought-prone regions