Framework sheds light on nitrogen loss of producing common food items
Credit: Shu Kee Lam January 13, 2021 - The element nitrogen is a double-edged sword. It is essential for growing ...
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No-till practices in vulnerable areas significantly reduce soil erosion
Credit: College of ACES, University of Illinois. URBANA, Ill. - Soil erosion is a major challenge in agricultural production. It ...
Beating the ‘billion-dollar bug’ is a shared burden
Study shows how individual farming practices associated with greater corn rootworm damage can have farther-reaching effectsCredit: Original image from Carol ...
Soil degradation costs U.S. corn farmers a half-billion dollars every year
Credit: Pexels One-third of the fertilizer applied to grow corn in the U.S. each year simply compensates for the ongoing ...
Climate change reduces the abundance and diversity of wild bees, study finds
Credit: Kate Anton, Penn State UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Wild bees are more affected by climate change than by disturbances ...
Comprehensive characterization of vascular structure in plants
Biology: Key publication in The Plant CellCredit: HHU / Ji-Yun Kim The leaf vasculature of plants plays a key role ...
Cultivating plant growth in space
Credit: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign When in space, astronauts typically eat dehydrated, nutrient-dense food, but when it comes to longer ...
Small towns are bigger than we think
Innovative FAO study maps urban-rural catchment areas and points to ways to optimize policy and planning coordination for agriculture, services ...
TU Graz identifies bacterium that protects rice plants against diseases
Bacterium inside the seed can lead to complete resistance to a particular pathogen and is naturally transmitted from one plant ...
Possible explanation for more efficient maize growth
Biology: Publication in The Plant CellCredit: HHU / Margaret Bezrutczyk Maize has a significantly higher productivity rate compared with many ...
Energy sorghum may combine best of annual, perennial bioenergy crops
CABBI study shows the annual crop behaves more like the perennial grass miscanthus in its efficient use of water and ...
Scientists developing new solutions for honeybee colony collapse
Grant establishes network of bee researchers at four UC campusesCredit: Boris Baer/UCR The University of California, Riverside, is leading a ...
Cattle grazing and soybean yields
Credit: Morgan Grabau By late fall, much of the Midwest is a pleasing landscape of dry, harvested corn fields. It ...
Understanding disease-induced microbial shifts may reveal new crop management strategies
Credit: Dr. Nichole Ginnan While humanity is facing the COVID-19 pandemic, the citrus industry is trying to manage its own ...
Identifying Canada’s key conservation hot spots highlights problem
First of its kind mapping of most important places for freshwater, recreation and carbon storage provides tool for conservation decisionsCredit: ...
Protecting the global food supply chain
New study examines making food supply more resilient to natural shocksCredit: Photo courtesy of Kyle Davis As the world grows ...
Using solar energy and agriculture to limit climate change, assist rural communities
Credit: Oregon State University CORVALLIS, Ore. - Co-developing land for both solar photovoltaic power and agriculture could provide 20% of ...
Two University of Tennessee leaders honored by Association of Public and Land-grant Universities
UTIA's Neal Schrick and Hongwei Xin recognized as FSLI FellowsCredit: Image provided by FSLI. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Two leaders from ...
The puzzle of nonhost resistance: why do pathogens harm some plants but not others?
Credit: Ralph Panstruga & Matthew Moscou People have puzzled for years why pathogen Phytophthora infestens causes the devastating late blight ...
Groups of bacteria can work together to better protect crops and improve their growth
Credit: Noam Eckshtain-Levi, Susanna Leigh Harris, Reizo Quilat Roscios, and Elizabeth Anne Shank Certain bacteria, known as plant-growth-promoting bacteria (PGPB), ...
