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Illustration of gears one of which is planet earth
Mar 11, 2026
Pooling Ideas on Public-Private Agri-Food R&D and Innovation Possibilities: A World Food Prize Panel
2025 World Food Prize: Panel Summary
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Women in lab coat tending to plants in a lab setting
Feb 06, 2026
2Blades and GEMS Informatics Partner to Create BladeSeek™ Gene Discovery and Sharing Environment
2Blades and GEMS Informatics announce a new partnership to create an integrated database for BladeSeek™, 2Blades’ gene discovery platform.
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Plant samples in the gene bank, part of CIAT's Genetic Resources program, at the institution's headquarters in Colombia.
Jan 07, 2026
Seismic Shifts in the Global Agri-Food R&D Landscape
Citation: Pardey, P.G., C. Chan-Kang, G-J. Stads, Y. Chai. J.M. Alston, J. Greyling, H. Muñoz.
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vegetables on a table at a farmers market
Sep 16, 2025
Reimagining Partnerships to Transform the Agri-food Innovation Chain
University of Minnesota alum and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Norman Borlaug often implored agricultural scientists to look beyond their lab benches
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Group photo of participants, grades 6-8 wearing personal protective equipment as part of tour of Food Science lab
Jul 01, 2025
Summer Science Event Generates Enthusiasm For Food Science, Ag, and Computers
Last year a dedicated team of nearly 30 scientists teamed up to create and deliver a fun-filled summer science event for middle school students.
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A map showing part of North America where sensing nodes were deployed to capture WinterTurf data
Jun 17, 2025
WinterTurf hackathon and 2024–2025 sensing update
As the WinterTurf 2024–2025 data collection season comes to a close, the WinterTurf sensing nodes are being removed to make way for spring maintena
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Heirloom varieties of wheat heads
May 29, 2025
Pedigree analysis tools illuminate ancestry of over 8.5M wheat varieties in CIMMYT’s international nursery
The International Wheat and Maize Improvement Center (CIMMYT) is the world’s primary source of breeding material for wheat and corn (maize).
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Cost solutions Trifolium pratense Parque Rosalía de Castro Burela
Mar 05, 2025
Cover Crop Monitoring with RGB-Based Indices: A Low-Cost Solution for Farmers
Cover crops provide many benefits such as improving soil health, sequestering carbon, and potentially providing nitrogen credits.
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A digital illustration shows how data from NOAA, AmeriFlux, and local weather stations can be harmonized and queried through a unified system.
May 27, 2025
A Prototype Tool for Integrating Agrometeorological Data Across Sources
Read more about the prototype tool we published as part of our ongoing work to improve the use of environmental data in agricultural research.
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Verticillium wilt symptoms on potato vascular tissue (left), on potato tuber (right)
Feb 10, 2025
Sensing Below-Ground Environments to Better Predict Potato Disease Threats
Potatoes are a pervasive staple and specialty crop the world over, but so too are the pests and diseases that affect potato yields, tuber quality and…