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Compost improves apple orchard sustainability
Credit: Greg Peck As the saying goes, an apple a day keeps the doctor away. But what's the key to ...
Study reveals agriculture-related injuries more numerous than previously known
Credit: Linda Fetzer, Penn State A new study by Penn State researchers, who looked at emergency room admissions across the ...
Illuminating the mechanism behind how plants regulate starch synthesis
Credit: Modified Fig. 9 of Fukayama et al. Plant, Cell & Environment (2021) In a world-first, a Kobe University research ...
Landmark field trials show potential of gene-editing
Credit: John Innes Centre Field trials investigating healthy compounds in agronomically important brassica crops have underlined the "immense potential" of ...
NTU and global nonprofit The Good Food Institute Asia Pacific launch new undergraduate course
Credit: (Credit to NTU Singapore). Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) and The Good Food Institute Asia Pacific (GFI APAC), ...
Sorghum, a close relative of corn, tested for disease resistance on Pennsylvania farms
Credit: Surinder Chopra/Penn State With sorghum poised to become an important crop grown by Pennsylvania farmers, Penn State researchers, in ...
RUDN University biologists develop a rapid test for detecting the fire blight in plants
Credit: RUDN Unviersity RUDN University biotechnologists have created a method for detection of bacterial infection in apple, pear, hawthorn and ...
‘Unshackled’ palm-destroying beetles could soon invade Australia
Credit: The University of Queensland A destructive pest beetle is edging closer to Australia as biological controls fail, destroying home ...
New models predict fewer lightning-caused ignitions but bigger wildfires by mid century
Credit: Photo by Andrew Meigs CORVALLIS, Ore. - Human-caused wildfire ignitions in Central Oregon are expected to remain steady over ...
USDA awards UToledo $500,000 for fertility research to help cattle industry
The three-year grant targets agricultural productivity, but also can advance ongoing human fertility researchCredit: Daniel Miller, The University of Toledo ...
Scientists discover unreported plant body part
Credit: Timothy Gookin For many, the Thale cress (Arabidopsis thaliana) is little more than a roadside weed, but this plant ...
A quarter of global harvests at risk if agriculture does not adapt to climate change
Credit: Sue Wing et al. 2021 Shifts in weather patterns induced by climate change will increase extreme heat and reduce ...
UTIA professor receives community development early career achievement award
Sreedhar Upendram recognized for significant advancement of community development in TennesseeCredit: Image courtesy UTIA. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Sreedhar Upendram, assistant ...
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