An international team of agronomists is calling for a new approach to estimate crop yield potential and gaps — information that is critical in planning how to meet growing food demand.

How much food can the world grow?
International team calls for new yield potential estimates

Researchers use metabolic model to study temperature stress on corn
Science Notes: Fungus could alleviate corn stress
A research team led by Nebraska scientists has built the largest-ever metabolic model of corn to study how temperature stress affects the plant and how a certain fungus can alleviate the problem. The research is an expansion of earlier work with a metabolic model of corn roots that the same team used to study the plant’s nitrogen-use efficiency […] Read more