What it takes for green businesses to advertise online
National survey analyses adoption of online marketing strategies The green industry in the United States is comprised of production and ...
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The challenges of North American specialty cut flowers
Industry needs studied as demand and production increasesCredit: John Dole Across the United States and Canada, demand for local specialty ...
Researchers find genes that could help create more resilient chickens
Newscastle disease hits farmers with small flocks in low- to middle-income countries the hardest UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- An international ...
UTIA developing ability-to-pay framework for Tennessee communities
Tool to optimize loan and grant administration for water-related infrastructure improvementsCredit: T. Johnson, courtesy UTIA Researchers at the University of ...
UCPH researchers on hunt for sustainable super crop recipe
Smarter food production is becoming an imperative as the world's population swells and climate changes. With the backing of a ...
Two startups with UTA ties selected for accelerator program
UTA entrepreneurshipCredit: UT Arlington Two startups with ties to The University of Texas at Arlington have been selected for an ...
Sensing food textures is a matter of pressure
Credit: Nicole Etter / Penn State Food's texture affects whether it is eaten, liked or rejected, according to Penn State ...
Research shows temperature, glyphosate increase probability for dicamba volatility
Both factors found to be contributors in dicamba movementCredit: Ginger Rowsey KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - Higher temperatures and mixing glyphosate with ...
BTI researchers discover interactions between plant and insect-infecting viruses
Researchers at Boyce Thompson Institute and USDA-ARS are examining the relationship between aphids and the plant viruses they transmit on ...
UMBC research decodes plant defense system, with an eye on improving farming and medicine
Findings reveal new genetic links between plants' circadian clock and immunity systemsCredit: Marlayna Demond for UMBC UMBC's Hua Lu, professor ...
Researchers determine ideal areas and timing for biological control of invasive stink bug
CORVALLIS, Ore. - Biological control of the brown marmorated stink bug, an invasive pest that devastates gardens and crops, would ...
Crop resilience is focus of new interdisciplinary research
Project will focus on microbial interactions with wheatCredit: Becky Kirkland, NC State University Research suggests that microbes in the soil, ...
The battle to save citrus fruits
Huanglongbing, (HLB), also known as citrus greening, has devastated Florida's citrus farms. Although some growers in China and Brazil have ...
CABI to create the world’s first global burden of crop pests and diseases
CABI has received a US $200,000 grant from the Grand Challenges program, an initiative of the Bill & Melinda Gates ...
Community knowledge can be as valuable as ecological knowledge in environmental decision-making
An understanding of community issues can be as valuable as knowing the ecology of an area when making environmental decisions, ...
Fifty years later, DDT lingers in lake ecosystems
Credit: Joshua Kurek To control pest outbreaks, airplanes sprayed more than 6,280 tons of dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) onto forests in New ...
Superweed resists another class of herbicides, study finds
Credit: L. Brian Stauffer, University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - We've all heard about bacteria that are becoming resistant to ...
Penn State researchers to boost endangered Chesapeake logperch population
Credit: Amy Duke As fishes go, the Chesapeake logperch is hardly impressive. The yellow- to olive-colored member of the darter ...
Switchgrass hybrid yields insights into plant evolution
Credit: Courtesy of MSU Switchgrass is attractive as a potential bioenergy crop because it can grow for years without having ...
Lettuce have it! Machine learning for cr-optimization
Credit: G's Growers At Earlham Institute (EI), artificial intelligence based techniques such as machine learning is moving from being merely ...