Agricultural research

Jeffrey Dangle, Brian Stacekevich and Jonathan Jones. Photos: Wolf Prize Foundation

Wolf Prize in Agriculture 2025: Recognizing groundbreaking discoveries in the plant immune system

The prize is awarded jointly to Professors Jeffrey Dangle, Jonathan Jones and Brian Stacekevich.
Almond trees blooming in Israel. Photo: Ran Berkovich, Unsplash It sounds like rain and irrigation are just as significant a factor as warming.

Tu B'Shvat has arrived: Is the almond blossom in danger?

Almonds have been blooming in Israel for thousands of years, but the climate crisis could affect traditional cultivation. A special interview in honor of Tu B'Shvat with Dr. Or Sferling
Avocado tree. Photo by Reuven Dor

Researchers managed to produce avocado seedlings in half the time and without depreciation * saving billions of dollars and the shortcut to meet demand

The development of the start-up company Agroculture and Miguel researchers is the world's first commercial development of avocado seedlings using the vegetative propagation method in tissue cultures, which required overcoming complex technological challenges