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 ...
Tag: Agriculture
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), ...
New research makes strong case for restoring Hong Kong’s lost oyster reefs
Seven square meters of a HK oyster reef can filter up to one Olympic swimming pool of water in a ...
Capturing 40 years of climate change for an endangered Montana prairie
Though cooler and wetter springs drive an increase in grass production compared to 1978 levels, hotter summers mean all that ...
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