Research push will examine how plants and microbes interact and adapt during drought
Credit: Gabriel Castrillo LAWRENCE -- Just below ground, an ancient and poorly understood relationship plays out between plants and microbes ...
Tag: Agriculture
Breeding new rice varieties will help farmers in Asia
Credit: Courtesy of Dr. Phyo L.P. Won After interviewing smallholder farmers throughout South and Southeast Asia, one of the top ...
National funds advance helping hands kitchen garden at the UT Gardens, Knoxville
Produce donated to local food banksCredit: Image by H. Jones, courtesy UTIA. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - The U.S. Botanic Garden and ...
Four winners of the Schmidt Marine Costal Pollution Challenge are named
Credit: Mark Schrope Nutrient pollution is a costly and challenging environmental problem caused by excess nitrogen in the water. The ...
Danforth Center scientist receives $1.4M grant to develop smart farm technology
FieldDock system will autonomously deploy UAV's to accelerate crop improvement and reduce energy, water and fertilizer inputs with zero-carbon footprintCredit: ...
How much fluorine is too much fluorine?
Credit: James Hanly For most of us, our closest encounter with the element fluorine is likely to be our toothpaste ...
Back to the future: new study could lead to bumper crops
Credit: Elena Martin-Avila, et al. (2020). Research led by scientists at The Australian National University (ANU) could lead to major ...
Pesticide mixtures a bigger problem than previously thought
Credit: The University of Queensland New research led by The University of Queensland has provided the first comprehensive analysis of ...
Space to grow, or grow in space — how vertical farms could be ready to take-off
Credit: LettUs Grow Vertical farms with their soil-free, computer-controlled environments may sound like sci-fi. But there is a growing environmental ...
Research: Crop plants are taking up microplastics
Credit: YIC Microplastics (MPs), i.e., tiny plastic particles less than 5 millimeters in length, can now be found throughout the ...
Day in, day out: Targeting the daily magnesium “rhythm” can optimize crop yield
Scientists study the 24-hour pattern of magnesium intake in a rice plant to see if the photosynthetic efficiency of the ...
UQ researchers solve a 50-year-old enzyme mystery
Credit: The University of Queensland Advanced herbicides and treatments for infection may result from the unravelling of a 50-year-old mystery ...
WVU researchers leading $10 million sustainable biomass to value-added bioproducts project
Credit: West Virginia University As demand increases for sustainable and environmentally friendly energy and products, the Mid-Atlantic region with its ...
Born to be a cannibal: Genes for feeding behavior in mandarin fish identified
Credit: HZAU Some mandarin fish species (Sinipercidae) are pure fish-eaters, which feed exclusively on living juvenile fish - also of ...
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