Microbes play important role in soil’s nitrogen cycle
Credit: Vivian Wauters Under our feet, in the soil, is a wealth of microbial activity. Just like humans have different ...
Tag: Agriculture
Is intensive agriculture reducing mourning dove reproduction in the eastern US?
Credit: David Muñoz Populations of some common bird species, including the familiar Mourning Dove, have been on the decline for ...
Common feed ingredient tested safe in bulls
Credit: Dan Shike, University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - Cattle feeders choose distillers grains in feedlot diets as an inexpensive ...
Disease-causing virus manipulates crop plants to favor its vector
Credit: Nick Sloff, Penn State UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- The virus that causes barley yellow dwarf, the most widespread disease ...
Bulb size matters: Uncovering the evolution of the plant kingdom’s doomsday preppers
Credit: Cody Howard GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Botanist Cody Coyotee Howard compares bulbs to living bunkers. With an underground stockpile of ...
Rice, know thy enemy: NSF grants $2.6 million to study weedy invader
Credit: Joe Angeles/Washington University Many farmers struggle with an enemy that looks like a friend. Agricultural weeds that are close ...
Fresh groundwater flow important for coastal ecosystems
International researchers led by University of Göttingen develop first global computer model of groundwater flow into world's oceansCredit: Nils Moosdorf, ...
UMD researcher establishes a new viable CRISPR-Cas12b system for plant genome engineering
New publication in Nature Plants details the first application of CRISPR-Cas12b in plants, providing gene editing, activation, and repression capabilities ...
Photosynthesis varies greatly across rice cultivars–natural diversity could boost yields
A new study uncovers how 14 diverse rice plants harness fluctuating light to fix carbon dioxide into food--our team found a 117% ...
More taxpayers’ money for the environment and public benefit
EU Common Agricultural Policy: More than 3,600 researchers call for science to be taken into considerationCredit: Sebastian Lakner The European ...
Lunar lasers and cosmic crops: NASA funds UArizona space exploration missions
NASA funding will support UArizona teams working on ways to harvest water and produce crops in space.Credit: NASA Many things ...
New aerial image dataset to help provide farmers with actionable insights
Enabling agricultural pattern analysis to improve decision-making and maximize yieldsCredit: Intelinair A dataset of large-scale aerial images produced by Intelinair, ...
Recovering phosphorus from corn ethanol production can help reduce groundwater pollution
Credit: Marianne Stein URBANA, Ill. - Dried distiller's grains with solubles (DDGS), a co-product from corn ethanol processing, is commonly ...
Food scientists slice time off salmonella identification process
Credit: Mars Global Food Safety Center ITHACA, N.Y. - Researchers from Cornell University, the Mars Global Food Safety Center in ...
Corn productivity in real time: Satellites, field cameras, and farmers team up
Credit: Image courtesy of Hyungsuk Kimm, University of Illinois. URBANA, Ill. - University of Illinois scientists, with help from members ...
Balancing bushmeat trade and conservation vital to ensure livelihoods not threatened
Local communities in the Congo rainforest have been working with researchers from the University of York in a bid to ...
Freeze-dried soil is more suitable for studying soil reactive nitrogen gas emissions
Credit: Dianming Wu Earth's atmosphere and climate change are strongly affected by gas exchange between land and atmosphere. Reactive nitrogen ...
Flower faithful native bee makes a reliable pollinator
Just like us, the humble sweat bee has a daily routineCredit: Jacob Cecala Entomologists at UC Riverside have documented that ...
Virginia Tech, University of Virginia work to safeguard US tomato industry
Credit: Virginia Tech Virginia Tech entomologist Muni Muniappan has warned of Tuta absoluta's likely arrival into the United States since ...
CABI scientists help discover new biological control for noxious parthenium weed in Pakistan
Credit: Asim Hafeez CABI scientists, as part of an international team of researchers, have discovered a new biological control in ...
