The Nils Foss Talent Prizes (15,000 EUR – and extraordinarily awarded to two talents this year) went to Laura Román Rivas, Aarhus University, for her work with plant-proteins, biopolymers extrusion, food structure, food processing, glycomics; and to Mahesha M. Poojary, Københavns Universitet - University of Copenhagen, for his work with food analytical chemistry and food protein chemistry.

The Prizes honor and provide established as well as upcoming and talented researchers within the field of food and agriculture with a recognition and a springboard to take their research even further.

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.

Derek V. Byrne has just released the anthology book entitled Effects and Implications of COVID-19 for the Human Senses, Consumer Preferences, Appetite and Eating Behaviour.

The aim of this special Issue anthology was, for the first time, to bring together researchers with key insights into how COVID-19 has impacted appetite and eating behaviours from the fundamental to the applicable, as assessed by human sensory perception.

Fodder radish is a popular autumn catch crop, but when plenty of nitrogen is available in the upper soil layers, its ability to take up nitrogen in the deep soil layers is reduced - and this can lead to increased leaching. The deep roots, on the other hand, are very effective when nitrogen availability in the topsoil is lower. This is the conclusion of a new study from Aarhus University.