Tag: Agriculture

Credit: Chris Kitchen, Cornell University ITHACA, N.Y. - For grape growers, accurately predicting each season's yield is key to a ...

Insect decline more extensive than suspected

Causes of insect decline and biodiversity loss to be found at the landscape levelCredit: Dr. Ulrike Garbe / Landesamt für ...

Land restoration in Ethiopia pays off but climate change necessitates many strategies

A combination of land restoration activities can boost crop yields -- in some cases as much as 170 percent -- ...

To avoid cassava disease, Tanzanian farmers can plant certain varieties in certain seasons

Credit: Rudolph R. Shirima, et al. A nutty-flavored, starchy root vegetable, cassava (also known as yuca) is one of the ...

Bacterial arsenic efflux genes enabled plants to transport boron efficiently

Functional origin of Nodulin26-like-intrinsic-proteins in plants uncoveredCredit: J. Himpe/IPK Gatersleben Stubby roots, brittle branches, poor fertility - these are some ...

Researchers describe how Vitamin E works in plants under extreme conditions

Retrograde signalling: From chloroplast to the nucleusCredit: Sergi Munné-Bosch (Research Group ANTIOX of the University of Barcelona) Vitamin E is ...

Unexpected outcomes: Damages to Puerto Rican coffee farms from Hurricane Maria varied

Credit: Levi Stroud/U-M College of LSA. ANN ARBOR--University of Michigan ecologists Ivette Perfecto and John Vandermeer have studied Latin American ...

Preserved pollen tells the history of floodplains

Credit: M.C. Ricker Many of us think about pollen only when allergy season is upon us. However, for soil scientists ...

New grant will help scientists study how cover crops affect plant disease

October 29, 2019

Credit: Christopher Gannon AMES, Iowa - A multi-state experiment that recently received a major grant will examine how planting cover ...

The use of sugarcane straw for bioenergy is an opportunity, but there are pros and cons

October 29, 2019

Brazilian researchers calculated the amount of nutrients in sugarcane leaves, which are normally left on the ground after harvest, and ...

Game changer: New chemical keeps plants plump

October 26, 2019

UC Riverside-led team's discovery offers hope for crops despite droughtCredit: UCR A UC Riverside-led team has created a chemical to ...

New portable DNA sequencer quickly and accurately diagnoses wheat viruses

October 22, 2019

Credit: John P. Fellers, Christian Webb, Madison C. Fellers, Jessica Shoup Rupp, and Erick De Wolf New Portable DNA Sequencer ...

Neural network technique identifies mechanisms of ferroelectric switching

October 22, 2019

Credit: Joshua C. Agar and Joshua Willey Innovations in material science are as essential to modern life as indoor plumbing ...

$2.3 million DOE grant to advance ethanol fuel research

October 22, 2019

Grant supports mathematical modeling of biomass movement in large fermentation facilitiesCredit: Purdue University/Michael Ladisch WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Imagine trying ...

Defining the centromere

Investigating the roles of kinetochores in cell divisionCredit: Images: Dr. Veit Schubert, IPK, Gatersleben Photos: Josef Bergstein, IPK, Gatersleben The ...

UConn launches hemp testing lab in response to industry need

Credit: Sean Flynn/UConn Photo In response to a rapidly expanding commercial hemp industry driven by interest in products with CBD ...

Merger to bring the next generation of insect control to the global marketplace

Eco-friendly pheromone insect controls become feasibleCredit: Photo by Kurt Miller Photography. Riverside, Calif. -- ISCA Global, Inc. has been formed ...

Real texture for lab-grown meat