Societal Impact Statement Biodiversity is essential to food security and nutrition locally and
globally. By reviewing the global state of edible plants and highlighting key neglected and …

Societal Impact Statement Plants and fungi have provided, or inspired, key pharmaceuticals
for global health challenges, including cancer, heart disease, dementia, and malaria, and …

Silicon (Si) is one of the essential and important elements that plays a vital role in the growth
and productivity of crop plants by improving their nutritional status. The exogenous …

The global biodiversity crisis in agriculture is overlooked compared with that in wild systems.
This must change if we are to safeguard domesticated plant diversity and meet global …

Overlooked in national reports and in conservation programs, wild food plants (WFPs) have
been a vital component of food and nutrition security for centuries. Recently, several …

Plant breeders develop competitive, high-yielding, resistant crop varieties that can cope with
the challenges of biotic stresses and tolerate abiotic stresses, resulting in nutritious food for …

Constant production of quality food should be a norm in any community, but climate change,
increasing population, and unavailability of land for farming affect food production. As a …

Global biodiversity hotspots are areas containing high levels of species richness, endemism
and threat. Similarly, regions of agriculturally relevant diversity have been identified where …

The development of sustainable agriculture is treated as a priority at the EU level, and the
importance and role of agriculture, in general, and sustainable agriculture, in particular, is …

In Finland, crop choices are limited, and cultivation is only possible in the regions where
production risks and uncertainties are manageable. Climate change progresses rapidly at …