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27 September 2024
Science
FEATURE | 5 min READ

Boosting beans for breeders

A consortium of partners from 16 countries will be contributing information about legume crops to a living database, allowing breeders to improve the peas and beans on our plates.
01 March 2024
People Science
FEATURE | 5 min READ

Light-up plants and tunable roots signal new solutions for climate crisis

There has been no rain for a month. The soil around a farmer’s wheat plants is bone-dry. In the past this could have led to the loss of the whole crop – but one flick of a genetic switch means the root systems can begin to adapt to the drier conditions.
04 November 2021
Science
FEATURE | 8 min READ

The inextricable link between climate change and biodiversity.

Why conservation must be at the forefront of the conversation.
October 22, 2021
Science
FEATURE | 10 min READ

Can we reach net zero & climate resilience? Here are 6 ways Earlham scientists are getting us there

13 October 2021
Science Technology
FEATURE | 8 min READ

Hybrid Wheat Initiative: the ‘holy grail’ of wheat breeding

Connecting academia and the wheat industry to resolve the critical challenge of hybrid wheat and shape the future of crop research.
May 14, 2021
Science
FEATURE | 15 min READ

Hidden biodiversity: a matter of life or death

How can we better understand and protect the planet's biodiversity, so that we can continue to benefit from it and prosper for many generations to come?
21 October 2020
Science
FEATURE | 8 min READ

Healthy soil is important, but what does it look like?

Without healthy soils, we’d have precious little food to eat. But this fundamental resource is being eroded by climate change and overuse of agrichemicals. Under severe threat are the communities of microbes which live in and around crops, helping them to thrive, yet we still know precious little about what our treatment of soils is doing to those microorganisms.