According to the UN-FAO, agricultural production must increase by 50% by 2050 to meet
global demand for food. This goal can be accomplished, in part, by the development of …

Increasing the speed of breeding to enhance crop productivity and adaptation to abiotic
stresses is urgently needed. The perception that a second Green Revolution should be …

Quantitative understanding of factors driving yield increases of major food crops is essential
for effective prioritization of research and development. Yet previous estimates had …

Future rice systems must produce more grain while minimizing the negative environmental
impacts. A key question is how to orient agricultural research & development (R&D) …

Global food security requires food production to be increased in the coming decades. The
closure of any existing genetic yield gap (Y ig) by genetic improvement could increase crop …

Plants uptake and assimilate nitrogen from the soil in the form of nitrate, ammonium ions,
and available amino acids from organic sources. Plant nitrate and ammonium transporters …

Digital agriculture is exciting attention because of an expectation that food systems will be
disrupted by new digital technologies through improvements in precision, efficiency, volume …

Nitrogen (N) is one of the decisive elements for plant growth, crop biomass accumulation,
and yield formation of cereal crops. However, managing N in crop production and …

Historically, the agronomic focus of crop mineral nutrition has yielded responses to
individual elements (N, P, K…) to determine the economically optimum fertilization rates …

Sustainable agriculture describes crop management approaches that address the
interdependent goals of increasing or at least maintaining yield while protecting the …