Future Food News
 

SAVE THE DATES! - Future Food Beacon June Briefings at 10.30-12.30 on 15-17 June 2021

Andrew Salter is a co-author of a great new paper in Nature Food analysing historic dietary shifts in order to help our transition to more sustainable diets in the future. A helpful explanatory article by the lead author, Emily Moberg, offers a summary of the paper. 

Lisa Yon and her colleagues in Brazil have persevered with their collaborative project in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic and have succeeded in publishing their findings in Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment. They model 3 possible scenarios in the expected levels of sedimentation and agrochemical pollution in the Brazilian Pantanal. This is a great outcome of the pump priming funds the Beacon has been able to provide via its EMBRAPA project and partnership funding: this research team is building towards becoming world class! 

The recent paper by Elliot Owen, Tristan Dew et al on fruit and vegetable biomarker development and dietary assessment was nominated as Editor's Choice in the latest edition of the Journal of Nutrition.

Congratulations to Hina Kamal and Andrew Salter of the Future Proteins Platform on the publication of their review of extraction techniques for recovering protein from food waste.

Matt Jones has co-written an article on palaeoscience in a brand new magazine for younger readers called Past Global Changes Horizons.  

We followed the bumper double-length blog by Levi Yant about his amazing Baobab Genome Project with the first in a new series of career development blogs by Peter Noy, starting at episode 1-  'The Osprey'! 

Interesting articles and reports
The United Nations Environment Programme UNEP Food Waste Index Report 2021 reveals that around a third of the food grown never gets eaten.

UKRI's 10 year roadmap for plant scientists is a must-read for many of our subscribers.

Watch GODAN's recent Empowering women in agriculture with open data mapping webinar for inspiration.

Fox in the box! Not a football article unfortunately but an entertaining video showing how mobile processing units in lorries could help to shorten supply chains.

The ever-interesting KTN Agrifood newsletter this month features an intriguing report on Plant biostimulants and their role in sustainable agricultural production systems.

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New publications from Future Food
 

Futureproofing agricultural systems

Simulating land use changes, sediment yields, and pesticide use in the Upper Paraguay River Basin: Implication for conservation of the Pantanal wetland de Oliveira Roque et al (2021)

Mapping groundwater recharge in Africa from ground observations and implications for water security MacDonald et al (2021)

Maintenance of adaptive dynamics and no detectable load in a range-edge out-crossing plant population Takou et al (2021)

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

The potential of resilient carbon dynamics for stabilizing crop reproductive development and productivity during heat stress Ferguson et al (2021)

Novelty and convergence in adaptation to whole genome duplication Bohutinska et al (2021)

De-novo mutation and rapid protein (co-) evolution during meiotic adaptation in Arabidopsis arenosa Bohutinska et al (2021)

The evolutionary genomics of serpentine adaptation Konecna et al (2021)

Help or hindrance? The evolutionary impact of whole-genome duplication on immunogenetic diversity and parasite load Bell et al (2021)

Plant roots sense soil compaction through restricted ethylene diffusion Pandey et al (2021)


Food for health

Combined innovations in public policy, the private sector and culture can drive sustainability transitions in food systems Moberg et al (2021)

Magnesium and calcium over accumulate in the leaves of a schengen3 mutant of Brassica rapa Alcock et al (2021)

Influence of environmental and genetic factors on food protein quality: current knowledge and future directions Szepe et al (2021)

Selenium speciation and bioaccessibility in Se-fertilised crops of dietary importance in Malawi Muleya 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)

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

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


Food for sustainable livelihoods

Extraction of protein from food waste: An overview of current status and opportunities Kamal et al (2021)

Role of novel protein sources in sustainably meeting future global requirements Salter and Lopez-Viso (2021)

Derivation and validation of a total fruit and vegetable intake prediction model to identify targets for biomarker discovery using the UK National Diet and Nutrition Survey Owen et al (2021)

Genomic and pedigree-based predictive ability for quality traits in tea (Camellia sinensis (L.) O. Kuntze) Lubanga et al 2021

Thermal taster status: temperature modulation of cortical responses to sweetness perception Eldeghaidy et al (2021)

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