Picking up threads of cotton genomics
Analysis reveals cotton genome stability across global lineagesCredit: Cotton Inc. Come harvest time, the cotton fields look like popcorn is ...
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University of Kentucky’s Superfund Research Center receives $8.7 million
Credit: University of Kentucky LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 20, 2020) -- The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) has awarded ...
Lactic acid bacteria present in kimchi cabbage and garlic carry out the fermentation
Identification of the origin source and the fermentation characteristics of lactic acid bacteria responsible for kimchi fermentationCredit: World Institute of ...
How did an ancient plant from Latin America become Asia’s second-most-important cash crop?
Valued at dining room tables and factory floors alike, cassava is worth about $10 billion in Asia. The continued growth ...
UMD researchers find that incentive-based tariffs aren’t the way to control invasive pests
Researchers find that in order to see measurable impacts, tariffs would risk diplomacy and cost US consumers about $38 million ...
SMART and MIT develop nanosensors for real-time plant health monitoring
New nanobionic approach allows scientists to study the communication within plants, providing valuable insights to improve crop yieldsCredit: Felice C. ...
Soil carbon and nitrogen mineralization after the initial flush of CO2
Credit: Alan Franzluebbers Healthy soil should have abundant nitrogen to supply plant growth needs, but it should not all be ...
Milk pioneers: East African herders consumed milk 5,000 years ago
Credit: Oliver Rudd When you pour a bowl of cereal, you probably aren't considering how humans came to enjoy milk ...
Breeding a hardier, more nutritious wheat
Credit: Lynn Veenstra Some new crop varieties are bred to be more nutritious. Others are more resilient, bred to tolerate ...
Foxglove plants produce heart medicine; can science do it better?
Two studies mark an early step in a UB biologist's quest to understand how foxgloves make medicinal compoundsCredit: Zhen Wang ...
Livestock and poultry farming should be the future focus of agricultural ammonia emissions control
Credit: Jiayu Huang As the only alkaline gas in the atmosphere, ammonia can react with sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides ...
Discovered a small protein that synchronizes the circadian clocks in shoots and roots
The CSIC researcher at CRAG Paloma Mas leads a study published in Nature Plants demonstrating that the clock protein ELF4 ...
Discovery of a mechanism plants use to toggle on photosynthesis chosen by top journal
Credit: WSU Harvesting sunlight to make energy is a complex reaction that plants do naturally, but isn't well understood. A ...
Fungus application thwarts major soybean pest, study finds
Credit: Photo by USDA-ARS CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- The soybean cyst nematode sucks the nutrients out of soybean roots, causing more ...
Integrated crop-livestock systems in paddy fields: New strategies for flooded rice nutrition
Credit: Luiz G. Denardin Worldwide, flooded rice cultivation has degraded soil quality, reducing rice yield and requiring intense use of ...
New information about the transmission of the amphibian pathogen, Bsal
Social distancing works for newts, tooCredit: Image by T. Amacker. KNOXVILLE, Tenn.--Researchers at the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture's ...
Mapping the evolution of coastal waters in Metro Vancouver: The Burrard Inlet
What did the Burrard Inlet look like in the past, compared to how it is now?Credit: Fanny Couture What did ...
Wearable health sensors will help detect disease in livestock
Credit: Biotangents Wearable biosensors are being developed to help monitor the health of livestock, particularly dairy cows, with the aim ...
Building a bean that resists leafhoppers
Credit: Tim Porch Leafhoppers are tiny insects. They are only about 3 millimeters long, smaller than a grain of rice. ...
Stanford researchers show how forest loss leads to spread of disease
Credit: Laura Bloomfield Viruses that jump from animals to people, like the one responsible for COVID-19, will likely become more ...
