Tag: Agriculture

Credit: Kelly Sikkema / Unsplash A key factor in America's prodigious agricultural output turns out to be something farmers can ...

Credit: John Innes Centre Hereditary information is passed from parent to offspring in the genetic code, DNA, and epigenetically through ...

Research team investigates influence of different mass-flowering crops on pollinatorsCredit: N Beyer Mass-flowering crops such as oilseed rape or faba ...

An affordable lab system that uses grass blades to turn cells into cultured meat has been developed at the University ...

Genetic technique edits every chloroplast in a plant, but does not change nuclear DNA of offspringCredit: Image by Hiroko Uchida ...

Credit: Image supplied by University of Adelaide. One of the many challenges for grape growers posed by climate change is ...

Credit: Tim Macuga, QUT QUT researchers have developed a new machine learning mathematical system that helps to identify and detect ...

Research should improve long-term cold storage of everything from foods to medicines Have you ever wondered why ice grows 'out ...

Populations of Drosophila suzukii fruit flies - so-called "spotted-wing Drosophila" that devastate soft-skinned fruit in North America, Europe and parts ...

An international team of researchers has identified a novel mechanism in barley plants, which could help crop growers achieve high ...

New Brunswick, N.J. (June 28, 2021) - A Rutgers-led study sheds new light on the evolution of photosynthesis in plants ...

New Brunswick, N.J. (June 28, 2021) - COVID-19's socio-economic effects will likely cause another severe production crisis in the coffee ...

Smithsonian conservation research brief Did you know chocolate comes from cocoa beans grown in some of the most biodiverse tropical ...

Over the last decade, severe outbreaks of bacterial canker have caused huge economic losses for kiwi growers, especially in Italy, ...

New report highlights climate change effects on greater Yellowstone ecosystem Temperature significantly increased and snowfall decreased in the iconic Greater ...

The Alliance-managed website MusaNet collects and shares global resources on banana (Musa) across the whole value chain - from collecting ...

A revolutionary approach to nourishing 10 billion people on a hotter planet without destroying the ecosystems on which we all ...

As the saying goes, an apple a day keeps the doctor away. But what's the key to growing a quality ...

A new study by Penn State researchers, who looked at emergency room admissions across the U.S. over a recent five-year ...

Credit: Modified Fig. 9 of Fukayama et al. Plant, Cell & Environment (2021) These research results were published in the ...