Eat barley for your health, the environment and the climate. That's the message from researchers at Aarhus University, who in a new project want to find out why barley doesn't have the same baking properties as wheat, and how this can be changed so that we can eat far more bread baked from barley in the future.

We've heard it before, cows are agriculture's big climate sinners, but what if you could reduce methane emissions by making them graze on fields with tannin-rich plants? A researcher from the Department of Agroecology at Aarhus University has been awarded a prestigious Sapere Aude grant to investigate just that.

Aarhus University and Food & Bio Cluster Denmark invite to a seminar about advanced microbial food biotechnology. This seminar aims to provide inspiration and to initiate collaborations for projects that use microorganisms for developing sustainable food, ingredients, and materials for food storage.

The new collaborative platform, Plant2Food, will speed up the development of plant-based foods. On Plant2Food, researchers and companies will work together to explore complex issues within plant and food science and share new knowledge across sectors – without patenting the results. The Novo Nordisk Foundation will support the platform with up to DKK 200 million over the next five years.

Researchers from Aarhus University provide a thorough insight into how the interaction between plant chemistry and microbiomes is affected during an attack by a fungal pathogen. This knowledge improves the possibilities of exploiting plant chemistry and microbiomes in crop protection

In a new project funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark, researchers from Aarhus University will investigate the possibilities for a cost-effective and efficient way to reduce pesticides leaching from Danish agricultural fields. The project "Novel rhizosphere-activated hydroxyl radical oxidation of pesticides", or OHiROOT for short, will use iron-modified biochar and wetland plants to remediate pesticide polluted fields and water bodies in an economical and efficient way.

Mogens H. Greve is our new Professor of Pedology and Digital Soil Mapping at the Department of Agroecology at Aarhus University. He will be celebrated at an inaugural lecture on 15 December 2022 at 11.00 - 13.00.

Aarhus University is a part of an innovational project aimed at developing pyrolysis into an efficient and economical climate technology for Danish agriculture. The SkyClean Scale-up project has received DKK 124 million from NextGenerationEU, and the first ground has just been broken for the new pyrolysis plant

Based on large scale studies using novel methods of recording pain and stress in young piglets, researchers at Aarhus University (AU) have obtained new knowledge on how to handle local anesthesia of piglets at castration.

New research shows how plants' secretion of chemicals affects the composition of the microbiome in and around plant roots, keeping plant pathogens at bay and making plants less vulnerable to infection. But it's a delicate balance, as too little or too much of the chemicals can adversely affect the composition of beneficial microorganisms.