Virus genomes help to explain why a major livestock disease has re-emerged in Europe
Credit: Ciriaco Ligios Livestock diseases like bluetongue virus (BTV) can have devastating economic and health consequences, but their origins can ...
Tag: Agriculture
Harnessing psyllid peptides to fight citrus greening disease
BTI, USDA and UW researchers identified 122 peptides that could be used to as insecticides to halt a disease that ...
Agricultural pickers in US to see unsafely hot workdays double by 2050
Credit: Tigchelaar et al./Environmental Research Letters The global pandemic has put a focus on essential workers, those we rely on ...
Virus-infected honey bees more likely to gain entrance to healthy hives
Credit: Photo by Fred Zwicky CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Honey bees that guard hive entrances are twice as likely to allow ...
‘We urgently need a renewed public debate about new breeding technologies’
Göttingen agricultural economist evaluates research results on food securityCredit: S Koppmair Plant breeding has considerably increased agricultural yields in recent ...
What’s the best way to identify male hemp seedlings?
More accurate sex determination could increase yields and lower price of CBDCredit: Allison Nalesnik, Salisbury University Bethesda, MD - The ...
Scientists use bacteria to help plants grow in salty soil
Method could be scaled up to help farmers improve crop yield in areas with increased soil salinityCredit: Brent L. Nielsen, ...
Training instance segmentation neural network with synthetic datasets for seed phenotyping
Development of an efficient method to accelerate the development of machine learning models for plant phenotypingCredit: Issey Takahashi In the ...
Learn from past to protect oceans
Credit: NOAA Photo Library History holds valuable lessons - and stark warnings - about how to manage fisheries and other ...
No time to waste to avoid future food shortages
Credit: Natalia Bateman, ARC Centre of Excellence for Translational Photosynthesis During the past few weeks, empty supermarket shelves, without pasta, ...
Common soil fungus could be ally in organic corn growers’ fight against pests
Credit: Nick Sloff A common soil fungus might be enlisted as a powerful partner by corn producers to suppress pests ...
Gene-editing protocol for whitefly pest opens door to control
Credit: Jason Rasgon, Penn State UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Whiteflies are among the most important agricultural pests in the world, ...
Recurrent genomic selection for wheat grain fructans
Credit: Lynn Veenstra Fructans are naturally occurring plant polymers composed of fructose molecules. They are found in approximately 15% of ...
Digital agriculture paves the road to agricultural sustainability
Credit: Michigan State University In a study published in Nature Sustainability, an ecosystem scientist and an agricultural economist outline how ...
Sweet potato microbiome research important first step towards improving yield
Credit: Brooke Bissinger Grown around the world, sweet potatoes are an important source of nutrition particularly in sub-Saharan African and ...
How atrazine regulations have influenced the environment
Credit: Yolanda Oberhofer To combat weeds, farmers use a variety of tools and methods. By understanding the strengths and downfalls ...
Is it safe to spin-dry leafy greens in a washing machine?
UMass Amherst researchers receive grant to study common practice at small New England farmsCredit: UMass Amherst Some of the nearly ...
Marrying molecular farming and advanced manufacturing to develop a COVID-19 vaccine
Credit: David Baillot, UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering Nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego are working ...
HudsonAlpha plant genomics researchers surprised by cotton genome
New reference-grade assemblies published in Nature GeneticsCredit: HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology April 20, 2020 (Huntsville, Ala.) - Plant genomics researchers ...
Aquaculture at the crossroads of global warming and antimicrobial resistance
Credit: © Miriam Reverter et al., Nature Communications. Aquaculture - rearing aquatic organisms such as fish and shellfish - plays ...
