Tag: Agriculture

Field trials investigating healthy compounds in agronomically important brassica crops have underlined the "immense potential" of gene editing technology, say ...

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) and The Good Food Institute Asia Pacific (GFI APAC), a global nonprofit headquartered in ...

With sorghum poised to become an important crop grown by Pennsylvania farmers, Penn State researchers, in a new study, tested ...

RUDN University biotechnologists have created a method for detection of bacterial infection in apple, pear, hawthorn and other plants of ...

A destructive pest beetle is edging closer to Australia as biological controls fail, destroying home gardens, plantations and biodiversity as ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. - Human-caused wildfire ignitions in Central Oregon are expected to remain steady over the next four decades and ...

The three-year grant targets agricultural productivity, but also can advance ongoing human fertility research Every time a dairy cow is ...

For many, the Thale cress (Arabidopsis thaliana) is little more than a roadside weed, but this plant has a long ...

Shifts in weather patterns induced by climate change will increase extreme heat and reduce rainfall across major crop growing regions, ...

Sreedhar Upendram recognized for significant advancement of community development in Tennessee KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Sreedhar Upendram, assistant professor in the ...

Plants are constantly exposed to microbes: pathogens that cause disease, commensals that cause no harm or benefit, and mutualists that ...

Study reviews best practices for growers Wine grape growers in California and elsewhere face increasing labor costs and severe labor ...

The success of Classical Biological Control in the Western Paleartic ecozone is rarely dependent on the released biological control agent, ...

Researchers from CRAG and IRTA find the gene that determines Japanese plum skin colour due to the presence or absence ...

Greenhouse gases from food production are systematically underestimated, researchers say A new global analysis says that greenhouse-gas emissions from food ...

If you're a beer drinker, you've noticed that hoppy beers have become increasingly popular. Most of the nation's hops come ...

ITHACA, N.Y. - As soon as an ear of corn is taken off its stalk or a potato is pulled ...

Study points to a history of indigenous sustainable use of the Western Amazon stretching back 5,000 years Smithsonian scientists and ...

A new study shows that substantial amounts of carbon dioxide were released during the last millennium because of crop cultivation ...

New journal paper explores the scientific complexities As meat-eating continues to increase around the world, food scientists are focusing on ...