Tepary beans — a versatile and sustainable native crop
Credit: Tomilee Turner Agriculture accounts for more than a third of water use in the United States. In drier parts ...
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Bermudagrass versus the armyworm
Striving for a better understanding of pest resistance in experimental linesCredit: Gurjit Singh Tifton, Georgia: A study out of the ...
EU project will SHOWCASE the path to biodiversity-friendly farming
Credit: Project SHOWCASE SHOWCASing synergies between agriculture, biodiversity and Ecosystem services to help farmers capitalising on native biodiversity (SHOWCASE) is ...
Plantwise honored with International IPM Achievement Award
The CABI-led Plantwise programme, which has helped millions of smallholder farmers realise a 12-30% increase in crop-based activity and income, ...
Male weeds may hold key to their own demise
Credit: Lauren D. Quinn, University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - Scientists are getting closer to finding the genes for maleness ...
High-tech fixes for the food system could have unintended consequences
New technology is needed for our failing food systems; but anticipating trade-offs is crucial to making sure fixes do not ...
Thermal energy storage the key to reducing agricultural food pollution
Credit: UniSA University of South Australia thermal energy researcher Professor Frank Bruno has been awarded almost $1 million by the ...
$6.3 million will help UC Riverside save America’s avocado orchards
Incurable fungus, root rot and salinity threaten fruit productionCredit: UCR New grants totaling $6.3 million will help UC Riverside solve ...
SMART researchers design portable device for fast detection of plant stress
Raman leaf-clip sensor would allow rapid diagnosis of nutrition deficiency in plants, enabling farmers to maximise crop yield in a ...
Study finds large-scale expansion of stem rust resistance gene in barley and oat lineages
Credit: John Innes Centre Stem rust is one of the most devastating fungal diseases of wheat and historically has caused ...
Risk of vine-to-vine spread of Xylella fastidiosa is greatest in July and August
Credit: Mark Sisterson The bacterial plant pathogen Xylella fastidiosa is a worldwide threat to perennial tree and vine crops and ...
SMART researchers develop plant nanobionic sensor to monitor arsenic levels in soil
For the first time, researchers from SMART have engineered a living plant-based sensor for the detection of arsenic in the ...
Peeking into the pods of black soybeans
Scientists are getting closer to figuring out how to synthesize a plant pigment that could have medicinal usesCredit: Kumi Yoshida ...
Tomato’s wild ancestor is a genomic reservoir for plant breeders
Humans turned a weedy plant with tiny fruit into the tomato that we know today. That wild ancestor could lead ...
Novel haplotype-led approach to increase the precision of wheat breeding
Credit: John Innes Centre Wheat researchers at the John Innes Centre are pioneering a new technique that promises to improve ...
New discovery by SMART allows early detection of shade avoidance syndrome in plants
Researchers use Raman spectroscopy for early detection of SAS, which can help farmers better monitor plant health and lead to ...
Pesticide deadly to bees now easily detected in honey
Credit: Janusz Pawliszyn A common insecticide that is a major hazard for honeybees is now effectively detected in honey thanks ...
Making sense of a universe of corn genetics
Credit: Jianming Yu AMES, Iowa - Seed banks across the globe store and preserve the genetic diversity of millions of ...
What does East Germany’s rise and fall have to do with pigs? A lot, actually
The communist state's approach to industrial pig farming foreshadowed its demise, a University of Rochester historian arguesCredit: University of Washington ...
UTIA awarded FAA Grant to research sustainable aviation fuel development in the Southeast
Growing biomass for jet fuel may become a viable option for farmersCredit: Photo by E. McArthur on Unsplash. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. ...