Maize is a key crop in Nigeria and essential for food security. The new spatial simulations show that pest-related crop losses could range from 18% to 75% in the coming decades—more severe than ...

However, food price hikes increased to the highest level in four months, rising to 2.8% from 2.3% in January – due in large part to a sharp increase in maize prices. The increase in maize meal prices ...

At about 10.2-10.8MJ of metabolisable energy (ME)/kg DM, wholecrop has a lower ME than maize (11.2-11.6). Starch is also lower in wholecrop, at roughly 20%. Consequently, other sources of energy ...

To escape into the air, a petunia’s scent molecules, called volatile organic compounds (VOCs), have to travel through their cells’ cytoplasm, cross an inner membrane and then the cell wall, and ...