Nature foodPub Date : 2025-10-14DOI: 10.1038/s43016-025-01245-5
Walter C Willett, Frank B Hu, Xiao Gu
{"title":"Assessing diet in epidemiologic studies.","authors":"Walter C Willett, Frank B Hu, Xiao Gu","doi":"10.1038/s43016-025-01245-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-025-01245-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94151,"journal":{"name":"Nature food","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":21.9,"publicationDate":"2025-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145294943","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature foodPub Date : 2025-10-10DOI: 10.1038/s43016-025-01248-2
Qiang Xiang, Kai Yang, Li Cui, An-Qi Sun, Cai-Yu Lu, Jun-Qi Gao, Yi-Long Hao, Bin Ma, Hang-Wei Hu, Brajesh K Singh, Qing-Lin Chen, Yong-Guan Zhu
{"title":"Global exploration of drought-tolerant bacteria in the wheat rhizosphere reveals microbiota shifts and functional taxa enhancing plant resilience.","authors":"Qiang Xiang, Kai Yang, Li Cui, An-Qi Sun, Cai-Yu Lu, Jun-Qi Gao, Yi-Long Hao, Bin Ma, Hang-Wei Hu, Brajesh K Singh, Qing-Lin Chen, Yong-Guan Zhu","doi":"10.1038/s43016-025-01248-2","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43016-025-01248-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Drought stress impacts plant-microbe interactions, reshaping microbial community composition and biogeochemical cycling, thereby reducing crop productivity and threatening food security. However, the specific microbial responses and roles of plant-derived metabolites remain underexplored. Here we reveal that drought stress shifts the composition of wheat-associated microbiota across the phyllosphere, rhizosphere and root endosphere by favouring Actinobacteria and Ascomycota while depleting Proteobacteria and Basidiomycota. Targeted single-cell sorting and sequencing identified 21 active drought-tolerant bacteria (DTB) enriched in genes related to plant fitness and nutrient cycling. These DTB showed significant positive correlations with drought-enriched plant phytochemicals such as jasmonic acid and pipecolic acid. Moreover, the inoculation of synthetic community including four identified drought-tolerant taxa significantly stimulates the wheat growth under drought stress. A global exploration confirmed the widespread distribution of DTB, underscoring their promising potential to enhance crop resilience. This study provides new insights into drought-induced microbiome shifts and highlights microbial candidates for improving crop resilience in a changing climate.</p>","PeriodicalId":94151,"journal":{"name":"Nature food","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":21.9,"publicationDate":"2025-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145277010","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature foodPub Date : 2025-09-19DOI: 10.1038/s43016-025-01227-7
Anna T. Thomas, Jessica E. Hope, Maya B. Mathur
{"title":"Documentary films can increase public interest in plant-based diets in the USA","authors":"Anna T. Thomas, Jessica E. Hope, Maya B. Mathur","doi":"10.1038/s43016-025-01227-7","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43016-025-01227-7","url":null,"abstract":"Here we investigate the impacts of media advocating plant-based diets. Search volume for popular films explains the majority of variance in searches for plant-based food, but is not associated with consumption. For three documentaries, we estimated that a standard deviation increase in searches for each film increases searches for plant-based food by up to 43% in the following week. Our findings can inform approaches for raising awareness of sustainable diets. An analysis of popular media finds that, based on internet searches, documentary films can increase short-term interest in plant-based diets.","PeriodicalId":94151,"journal":{"name":"Nature food","volume":"6 9","pages":"837-842"},"PeriodicalIF":21.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145089798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature foodPub Date : 2025-09-19DOI: 10.1038/s43016-025-01228-6
Adam Feltz, Silke Feltz, Uyen Hoang, Jenna Holt
{"title":"Documentaries spur interest in plant-based diets","authors":"Adam Feltz, Silke Feltz, Uyen Hoang, Jenna Holt","doi":"10.1038/s43016-025-01228-6","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43016-025-01228-6","url":null,"abstract":"Effective transmission of scientific information to the public can take many forms. An analysis of films promoting plant-based diets suggests that information provided in these formats can increase internet searches of keywords related to this topic.","PeriodicalId":94151,"journal":{"name":"Nature food","volume":"6 9","pages":"829-830"},"PeriodicalIF":21.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145089796","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature foodPub Date : 2025-09-15DOI: 10.1038/s43016-025-01229-5
Travis R. Moore, Danielle M. Krobath, Yuilyn A. Chang Chusan, Udita Sanga, Patrick Webb, Mark Pachucki, Adolfo Cuevas, Hugh B. Roland, Brett Grant, Christina D. Economos, Vanessa Nicholson, Shiriki Kumanyika
{"title":"Systems science methods reveal and address links between discrimination and health disparities in US food systems","authors":"Travis R. Moore, Danielle M. Krobath, Yuilyn A. Chang Chusan, Udita Sanga, Patrick Webb, Mark Pachucki, Adolfo Cuevas, Hugh B. Roland, Brett Grant, Christina D. Economos, Vanessa Nicholson, Shiriki Kumanyika","doi":"10.1038/s43016-025-01229-5","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43016-025-01229-5","url":null,"abstract":"Discriminatory practices are well documented and deeply rooted in food systems. Systems science methods such as social network analysis, system dynamics modelling and agent-based modelling can help to determine how discriminatory processes arise, interact and accumulate to contribute to diet-related health disparities. Such methodological approaches can reveal leverage points for advancing equity-driven solutions.","PeriodicalId":94151,"journal":{"name":"Nature food","volume":"6 9","pages":"821-826"},"PeriodicalIF":21.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145059565","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature foodPub Date : 2025-09-10DOI: 10.1038/s43016-025-01225-9
Jing Yi, Shiyun Jiang, Dianna Tran, Miguel I. Gόmez, Patrick Canning, Jeffrey R. Bloem, Christopher B. Barrett
{"title":"Agrifood value chain employment and compensation shift with structural transformation","authors":"Jing Yi, Shiyun Jiang, Dianna Tran, Miguel I. Gόmez, Patrick Canning, Jeffrey R. Bloem, Christopher B. Barrett","doi":"10.1038/s43016-025-01225-9","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43016-025-01225-9","url":null,"abstract":"The traditional structural transformation narrative emphasizes intersectoral labour reallocation out of agriculture, ignoring whether workers exit agrifood value chains or merely migrate within them. Here we decompose multiregional input–output table data into industry- and country-specific annual labour value-added estimates by final consumer market segment, matching them with industry-specific employment data to estimate average worker compensation. Using data covering most of the global economy over 1993–2021, we report ten stylized facts about labour reallocation amid structural transformation. As incomes grow, labour exits primary production while downstream agrifood value chain segments maintain a steady economy-wide employment share—offering jobs that pay better than farm work. Women disproportionately move from primary production to downstream, consumer-facing retail and food service, whereas men migrate to better-paying midstream jobs, increasing gender pay inequality within the value chain. Employment shifts are strongly associated with changes in national per capita income, but not with agricultural total factor productivity growth. The traditional structural transformation narrative emphasizes intersectoral labour reallocation out of agriculture. This study presents ten stylized facts about how employment and compensation evolve within agrifood value chains amid structural transformation, offering insights into post-farmgate dynamics and gender pay inequality.","PeriodicalId":94151,"journal":{"name":"Nature food","volume":"6 9","pages":"868-880"},"PeriodicalIF":21.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145025584","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature foodPub Date : 2025-09-10DOI: 10.1038/s43016-025-01235-7
{"title":"Upcycling of food waste and food processing by-products into animal feed is not a panacea","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s43016-025-01235-7","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43016-025-01235-7","url":null,"abstract":"Upcycling of food waste and food processing by-products into animal feed presents a circular strategy to recycle nutrients for livestock production that would otherwise be lost. Scenario analyses based on an integrated environmental–economic modelling approach demonstrate that this upcycling has asymmetric effects on food security and environmental sustainability.","PeriodicalId":94151,"journal":{"name":"Nature food","volume":"6 9","pages":"835-836"},"PeriodicalIF":21.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145025582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature foodPub Date : 2025-09-10DOI: 10.1038/s43016-025-01220-0
Andrea Cattaneo
{"title":"Ten facts about agri-food value chains reshape our understanding of the food economy","authors":"Andrea Cattaneo","doi":"10.1038/s43016-025-01220-0","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43016-025-01220-0","url":null,"abstract":"As economies develop, farm labour finds better-paid positions across expanding agri-food value chains — reshaping wages and gender roles.","PeriodicalId":94151,"journal":{"name":"Nature food","volume":"6 9","pages":"831-832"},"PeriodicalIF":21.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145025583","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature foodPub Date : 2025-09-09DOI: 10.1038/s43016-025-01221-z
Laura de Baan
{"title":"How our diets drive biodiversity loss","authors":"Laura de Baan","doi":"10.1038/s43016-025-01221-z","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43016-025-01221-z","url":null,"abstract":"Reducing the overconsumption of animal products can strongly reduce biodiversity impacts of diets.","PeriodicalId":94151,"journal":{"name":"Nature food","volume":"6 9","pages":"827-828"},"PeriodicalIF":21.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145017476","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}