The leaders of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and UN World Food Programme (WFP) have applauded U.S. President Barack Obama for signing the Global Food Security Act (GFSA). The GFSA supports initiatives that focus on developing agriculture, assisting small-scale food producers, and improving nutrition.
Scientists at the John Innes Centre (JIC) have uncovered a previously unknown step in the process of vernalization, which links an important gene responsible for flowering time to the proteins that regulate it.
The Cayman Islands Government intensified their efforts to protect inhabitants from mosquito-borne diseases by releasing genetically engineered mosquitoes.
Researchers are constantly tinkering with plant breeding strategies to further improve the development of new high-yielding, stress-tolerant cereal varieties.