Press releases

Åsa Domeij 2025 SLU alumna of the year

Åsa Domeij, Head of Sustainability at Axfood, has been awarded SLU Alumna of the Year 2025. With a long-standing commitment to sustainable development, both in politics and the food industry, Åsa

Digital and Genetic Tools Can Improve the Breastbone Health of Laying Hens

Up to 90 percent of the world’s laying hens suffer from breastbone injuries—painful fractures and deformities that affect both animal welfare and egg production. Now, researchers at the Swedish

High-yielding rice that greatly reduces methane emissions has been developed at SLU

Rice is a staple food for half the world's population, but its cultivation leads to significant emissions of the greenhouse gas methane. Now, researchers from the Swedish University of Agricultural

Nanoparticles damage coronavirus in an unexpected way, paving the way for new disinfection technology

A new way to neutralise the coronavirus and other membrane-surrounded viruses has been discovered by researchers from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and the University of Tartu.

She wants to protect wheat from a forgotten enemy

Wheat is one of the world's most important food staples, but with climate change, threats to the crop are increasing. The fungal disease stem rust can quickly turn entire wheat fields into rotting

Gene-silencing spray to combat cereal disease is safe for the environment

Great hopes are placed on a new way to combat plant diseases, using RNA to turn off genes that the pathogen needs to initiate the attack. Now, researchers from SLU and the James Hutton Institute have

Cross marked tress

In protected forests in northern Sweden, centuries-old pine trees have unknown patterns carved into their trunks. They have now been scientifically investigated for the first time by researchers at

Basement cultivation for residents in Rosengård

Residents are transforming the empty basements of Sweden's "Million Program" housing into flourishing garden plots in a new initiative by SLU. The project "From Basement to Kitchen" aims to

Improved forest inventories through 3D remote sensing technology

Data collected with the help of drones, airplanes and satellites can today give us a cost-effective and detailed monitoring of our forests, and thus a valuable tool in forest management. Using new

The chemical cocktail in the bodies of Swedish young people reflects country of birth, place of residence and gender

The number of chemicals is steadily increasing in our environment and also in ourselves. However, the chemical mix that today's school youth in Sweden carry within them looks different in different

SLU leads international project on Nature-based Thinking

Major funding has allowed SLU to lead a project that will test Nature-based Thinking at different levels in Malmö, Barcelona and Turin. The three-year project will focus on biodiversity and human

A Helping Gene for Healthier Plants

Researchers at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) have discovered a new gene that controls plants' sensitivity to threats like fungi and drought. By removing this gene, plants