Sleep, wake, repeat: How do plants work on different time zones?
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Tag: Agriculture
Scientists stack algorithms to improve predictions of yield-boosting crop traits
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Research brief: Climate change is already affecting global food production — unequally
The world's top 10 crops -- barley, cassava, maize, oil palm, rapeseed, rice, sorghum, soybean, sugarcane and wheat -- supply ...
Fishing among worst jobs for health
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‘Slothbot’ takes a leisurely approach to environmental monitoring
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Resistance to Fusarium head blight holding in Illinois, study says
Credit: Fred Kolb, University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - Illinois wheat growers, take heart. A new University of Illinois study ...
Model identifies high-risk areas for lumpy skin disease in cattle
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A new vision for genomics in animal agriculture
Credit: USDA AMES, Iowa - Iowa State University researchers are part of a team that designed a new vision for ...
Thinning forests, prescribed fire before drought reduced tree loss
Treatments may reduce loss in future droughts and bark beetle epidemicsCredit: USDA Forest Service Thinning forests and conducting prescribed burns ...
Colombia could lose 60% of land suitable for irrigated rice due to climate change
Unchecked emissions will reduce land suitable for rice in Colombia, underscoring how geography limits options for crops. Unlike China, where ...
Some songbird nests are especially vulnerable to magpie predation
A new study has revealed a range of factors that cause a variation in predation by magpies on farmland songbirds. ...
Study could improve fire monitoring in Brazilian savana
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Parasitic plant research — Fulbright US Scholar Award
Credit: Virginia Tech Jim Westwood, a professor in the Virginia Tech College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, has received a ...
Farmers and food companies hit the dirt to improve soil health
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