Tag: Agriculture

Credit: Sarah Kostick The majority of today's plant-based food is a product of plant breeding. U.S. public plant breed-ing programs ...

Credit: Chris Costello lab, UCSB CORVALLIS, Ore. - Policy reforms and technological improvements could drive seafood production upward by as ...

Citizen scientists confirm that invasives seem to have advantage over native shrubs, contributing to their proliferation, impactsCredit: Erynn Maynard-Bean, Penn ...

Credit: KSU sorghum breeding program August 19, 2020 - Sorghum, a common food item in regions of Africa and Asia, ...

Credit: Eric Lonsdorf / Many farmers are used to sharing big equipment--like tractors and other costly machinery -- with neighboring ...

UT-led effort to develop research network focused on food, energy, and water resourcesCredit: Image by D. Sager, courtesy Unsplash. KNOXVILLE, ...

Local knowledge helps manage scarce resourcesCredit: Dr Margaret Shanafield, Flinders University Overallocation of surface water for growing food crops is ...

Credit: © 2020 KAUST; Ivan Gromicho Emerging technologies can be harnessed to use the strengths of hot, humid coastal deserts ...

Credit: College of ACES, University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. ­- Bird biodiversity is rapidly declining in the U.S. The overall ...

Findings have implications for seed production and crop yield and could help rewrite textbooks, translating to practical applications for plant ...

Credit: Michael O'Brien / SEARRP The rainforests of Southeast Asia are among the fastest declining tropical ecosystems worldwide. Researchers from ...

Credit: Surinder Chopra, Penn State Flavonoid compounds -- produced by the roots of some sorghum plants -- positively affect soil ...

Credit: courtesy of Arron Carter A plant breeder's goal is to release cultivars that are commercially economical and environmentally sustainable. ...

Amanda De La Torre is studying the genome of sugar pines to find out what makes some trees resistant to ...