Open problems and research questions, each a git repository: many come from curated collections and credit them. Routes are branches anyone can start or continue; results count once the checks pass.
Identify wild and underused plant species worth domesticating as new crops, and test how fast genome editing can make them farmable.
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Raise iron, zinc and provitamin A in staple crops, and show that the extra nutrients reach and benefit the people who eat them.
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Determine whether plant growth is limited by photosynthesis or by cell division and expansion, and how climate change shifts the balance.
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Explain why and how some plant pathogens jump to new host species, and predict which crop–pathogen pairs are at risk.
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Measure how often genes move sideways between plant species, and whether these transfers have shaped plant evolution and adaptation.
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Find how close crops can get to the theoretical maximum efficiency of photosynthesis, and which energy losses can be engineered away.
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Breed perennial grain crops that yield for several years from one planting, matching annual yields while saving labour and protecting soil.
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Settle whether organic, biodynamic and conventional farming produce food with measurably different nutrients, contaminants and health effects.
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Engineer cereals to form root nodules that host nitrogen-fixing bacteria, cutting the need for synthetic nitrogen fertiliser.
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Find when and where applied mycorrhizal fungi really raise crop yields, and how to predict success and check products before sowing.
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Predict crop traits such as yield from genotype across environments well enough to design ideal varieties before they are planted.
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Test whether priming crop defences can give broad, durable protection in farmers’ fields at little cost to yield, and cut pesticide use.
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Explain why hybrid crops outperform their parents, and use that understanding to breed better hybrids or fix hybrid vigour in seed.
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Learn how plants respond when heat, drought, salinity, pollutants and pathogens strike together, and breed crops that tolerate the combinations.
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