Plant diversification—such as cultivar mixtures, intercropping, agroforestry, and rotations at the field scale, or hedgerows, grasslands, and crop mosaics at the landscape scale—is a key strategy for enhancing pest control while providing strong ecological benefits. However, its adoption is hindered by socioeconomic barriers, including low short-term profitability, rigid agricultural sectors, and limited support from public policies. A multi-stakeholder approach at the territorial scale is essential to promote its widespread adoption.

This study demonstrated that neighbor relatedness alters root signaling (–)-loliolide levels and soil microbial responses followed by improvement of grain yield in closely related rice cultivar mix...

Rice blast, caused by the fungus Magnaporthe oryzae, is the most important disease of rice globally. Variety mixture can greatly reduce the incidence …

Increasing crop diversification is crucial for developing more sustainable agricultural systems, and cereal-legume intercropping is a promising strate…

Plant–pollinator interactions are ecologically and economically important, and, as a result, their prediction is a crucial theoretical and applied goal for ecologists. Although various analytical meth...

The context of global ecological crisis has led to the rediscovery and reuse of landrace crop cultivars. Many recent studies testify the high-quality value of landraces, as well as their agronomic int...

Reducing reliance on pesticides is an important global challenge. With increasing constraints on their use, in recent years there has been a declining trend in pesticide use for arable crops in the UK...

Abstract. Competition between plants can lead to a Tragedy of the Commons (TOCs) where over-investments into resource harvesting organs reduce collective p

Crop losses to pests, or crop gains to diversification: what matters most? This is a pivotal question for the acceptance of crop diversification solut…

<em>PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET</em> is an interdisciplinary plant journal of the New Phytologist Foundation publishing research at the interface of plants, society, and the planet.

Laura Mathieu, from France, a postdoctoral researcher at the French National Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE), based at the Plant Health Institute of Montpellier (PHIM).

Much remains to be discovered about how the complex plant antioxidant network interacts to determine the outcome of oxidative stress, a central factor in plant responses to the environment. This work...

Alors que les négociations de la COP16 sur la biodiversité reprennent mardi en Italie, des scientifiques disent leur stupéfaction devant les reculs qui affectent la protection de la nature, mais essai...