Future Food News
 

Gabriel Castrillo presented the findings of his Science paper 'Coordination between the microbiota and the root endodermis is required for plant mineral nutrient homeostasis' on 20 January 2021.

Levi Yant's recently accepted paper Adaptive introgression: how polyploidy reshapes gene flow landscapes is listed in Publications below. We will feature this in February's newsletter.

In our last blog of 2020, we introduced you the amazing new Rovercam machine. Look out for an updating blog showing Rovercam in action later this year!

In 2021, our blog got off to a highly topical start with Dr Yiqun Gao explaining what it is like to arrive in the UK during a pandemic and still manage to conduct top-level science! Next, our Prof. Salt responded to the latest controversy around bees and neonicotinoids with an information statement blog.
 
Arriving too late for our December newsletter, this short but fascinating piece about the Christmas dinners of the future is well worth your time in early 2021.

Researchers interested in supply chains in India will want to read about the TRANSSITioN project.

Sticking with India, NERC have released the recording and the slides form their November 2020 webinar 'Sustaining water resources for food, energy and ecosystem services in India'

PODCAST! Super Rice featuring Dr Smita Kurup of Rothamsted Research.

Really useful explainer about vitamins and minerals for those of us who are not already experts!

Interesting KTN article of food trends in the last 10 years and a little future casting.

Table's 'Fodder' newsletter for January is typically interesting, featuring articles on the environmental impacts of microwave cooking, dry pet food and external climate costs of food in Germany

IFST Food Waste Webinar Series: Minimising loss, maximising resources (Midlands) - 11.00 on 21 January 2021

New publications from Future Food
 

Adaptive introgression: how polyploidy reshapes gene flow landscapes (Accepted paper) Schmickl and Yant (2021)

Farmer adoption of sustainable intensification technologies in the maize systems of the Global South. A review Jones-Garcia et al (2021)

A stable isotope approach to accurately determine iron and zinc bioaccessibility in cereals and legumes based on a modified INFOGEST static in vitro digestion method Muleya et al (2021)

Ionomic analysis of spring wheat grain produced in Kazakhstan and Russia Abugalieva et al (2021

Building a resilient and sustainable food system in a changing world - A case for climate smart and nutrient dense crops Mustafa et al (2021)  

Why Garden in Schools? book - Earl and Thomson (2021)

Insects: a potential source of protein and other nutrients for feed and food Hawkey et al (2021)

Bambara Groundnut: An Underutilized Leguminous Crop for Global Food Security and Nutrition Tan et al (2020)

Men Writing Eating Disorders: Autobiographical Writing and Illness Experience in English and German Narratives book - Bartel (2020)

A network of transcriptional repressors modulates auxin responses Truskina et al (2020)

Coordination between microbiota and root endodermis supports plant mineral nutrient homeostasis Salas-Gonzalez et al (2020)

Targeted expression of the arsenate reductase HAC1 identifies cell type specificity of arsenic metabolism and transport in plant roots Fischer et al (2020)

A single bacterial genus maintains root growth in a complex biome Finkel et al (2020)

Increasing zinc concentration in maize grown under contrasting soil types in Malawi through agronomic biofortification: Trial protocol for a field experiment to detect small effect sizes Botoman et al (2020) 

Formation and diversification of a paradigm biosynthetic gene cluster in plants Liu et al (2020)

Cultivating elders for the UK processing industry - a Nuffield Scholar report by Alice Jones, sponsored by Thatchers Cider (2020) 

Wood hemicelluloses exert distinct biomechanical contributions to cellulose fibrillar networks Berglund et al (2020)

Structural Insights into the Mechanism of Heat‐Set Gel Formation of Polyisocyanopeptide Polymers Gavrilov et al (2020)

Tales from the countryside: Unpacking “passing the environmental buck” as hypocritical practice in the food supply chain Glover et al (2020)

Poetry on Eating Disorders in Men (book chapter) Bartel (2020)

Food biotechnology Foster et al (2020)

Effect of phosphorus supply on root traits of two Brassica oleracea L. genotypes Pongrac et al (2020)

A nociresponsive specific area of human somatosensory cortex within BA3a: BA3c? Sanchez Panchuelo et al (2020)

Uclacyanin proteins are required for lignified nanodomain formation within Casparian strips Reyt et al (2020)

The Effect of Dissolved Gases on the Short-Range Attractive Force between Hydrophobic Surfaces in the Absence of Nanobubble Bridging Azadi et al (2020)

Rapid temperature responses of photosystem II efficiency forecast genotypic variation in rice vegetative heat tolerance Ferguson et al (2020)

Low-Cost Automated Vectors and Modular Environmental Sensors for Plant Phenotyping  Atkinson et al (2020)

Arctic rolls and gender roles - Female and male eating disorders in Karen Duve's Regenroman and other texts Bartel (2020)

Barley sodium content is regulated by natural variants of the Na+ transporter HvHKT1;5 Houston et al. (2020).

Low cost automated vectors and modular environmental sensors for plant phenotyping Bagley et al. (2020).

Perspectives from CO+RE: How COVID-19 changed our food systems and food security paradigms Bakalis et al. (2020).