A new hazelnut has cracked its competitive marketplace
'PollyO' is proving to be a desirable hybridCredit: Shawn Mehlenbacher Researchers from Oregon State University have completed an examination of, ...
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Researchers double sorghum grain yield to improve food supply
Credit: Ware lab/CSHL, 2019 Plant scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) and USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS), in their ...
Viticulture gets a boost with yield predicting, threat detecting robots
Credit: Chris Kitchen, Cornell University ITHACA, N.Y. - For grape growers, accurately predicting each season's yield is key to a ...
Insect decline more extensive than suspected
Causes of insect decline and biodiversity loss to be found at the landscape levelCredit: Dr. Ulrike Garbe / Landesamt für ...
To avoid cassava disease, Tanzanian farmers can plant certain varieties in certain seasons
Credit: Rudolph R. Shirima, et al. A nutty-flavored, starchy root vegetable, cassava (also known as yuca) is one of the ...
Researchers describe how Vitamin E works in plants under extreme conditions
Retrograde signalling: From chloroplast to the nucleusCredit: Sergi Munné-Bosch (Research Group ANTIOX of the University of Barcelona) Vitamin E is ...
Using probiotics to protect honey bees against fatal disease
Credit: Western University Probiotics, beneficial microorganisms best known for promoting gut health in humans, are now being used by Western ...
Unexpected outcomes: Damages to Puerto Rican coffee farms from Hurricane Maria varied
Credit: Levi Stroud/U-M College of LSA. ANN ARBOR--University of Michigan ecologists Ivette Perfecto and John Vandermeer have studied Latin American ...
New grant will help scientists study how cover crops affect plant disease
Credit: Christopher Gannon AMES, Iowa - A multi-state experiment that recently received a major grant will examine how planting cover ...
The use of sugarcane straw for bioenergy is an opportunity, but there are pros and cons
Brazilian researchers calculated the amount of nutrients in sugarcane leaves, which are normally left on the ground after harvest, and ...
Red algae thrive despite ancestor’s massive loss of genes
Study may spawn ways to genetically alter and control red seaweedsCredit: Debashish Bhattacharya/Rutgers University-New Brunswick You'd think that losing 25 ...
Make fungi think they’re starving to stop them having sex, say scientists
Newly characterised receptors that repress sexual reproduction in fungi could be targeted to slow down their evolutionCredit: Brown and Goldman ...
Game changer: New chemical keeps plants plump
UC Riverside-led team's discovery offers hope for crops despite droughtCredit: UCR A UC Riverside-led team has created a chemical to ...
New portable DNA sequencer quickly and accurately diagnoses wheat viruses
Credit: John P. Fellers, Christian Webb, Madison C. Fellers, Jessica Shoup Rupp, and Erick De Wolf New Portable DNA Sequencer ...
UConn launches hemp testing lab in response to industry need
Credit: Sean Flynn/UConn Photo In response to a rapidly expanding commercial hemp industry driven by interest in products with CBD ...
Ugandans and Kenyans in cities happy to pay for food that is more nutritious
Malnutrition remains a serious problem for many people in East Africa; poor consumers are willing to pay a premium for ...
Bean tree plan to protect Amazon
Credit: Toby Pennington Amazon deforestation could be slowed by planting bean trees that would keep soils fertile and help smallholders ...
First report of cotton blue disease in the United States
Credit: Kathy Lawrence and Auburn University St. Paul, MN (October, 2019)--In August 2017, Kathy S. Lawrence, a plant pathologist at ...
Next-generation sequencing used to identify cotton blue disease in the United States
Credit: Plant Management Network and Judith K. Brown St. Paul, MN (October, 2019)--Cotton blue disease, caused by Cotton leafroll dwarf ...
Photosynthesis olympics: can the best wheat varieties be even better?
Credit: Dr Viridiana Silva-Perez/CoETP Scientists have put elite wheat varieties through a sort of "Photosynthesis Olympics" to find which varieties ...
