Tag: Agriculture

Scientists believe new control strategies for Fusarium head blight could be developed by targeting how the fungus 'tastes' wheat plants ...

Credit: American Phytopathological Society St. Paul, MN (April 2019)-- The bacterium Xylella fastidiosa is notable for having a wide host ...

Credit: Courtesy of MSU EAST LANSING, Mich. - While many scientists are focused on the decline of honey bees, relatively ...

Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Surplus industrial carbon dioxide creates an opportunity to convert waste into ...

Credit: University of Guelph A University of Guelph study is the first to uncover the impact of neonicotinoid pesticides on ...

Study shows fall armyworms prefer single-variety plantings of St. Augustine grassCredit: Russ Ottens, University of Georgia, Bugwood.org, CC BY 3.0 ...

NTU Singapore scientists have developed a sustainable way to demonstrate a new genetic modification that can increase the yield of ...

New workflow for annotating genomes will help both researchers and undergraduate studentsCredit: Prashant Hosmani As genome sequencing becomes cheaper and ...

Credit: K. D. Swisher Grimm and S. F. Garczynski St. Paul, MN (April 2019)--Named after the dark stripes that form ...

York University research shows species is critically endangered The American Bumblebee - a species once more commonly seen buzzing around ...

Credit: Agricultural Research Service USDA FARGO, NORTH DAKOTA, April 18, 2019--Cold temperatures inside honey bee colonies may cause colony losses ...

Scientists from Sweden and Finland say gaming presents both challenges and benefits for communicating climate change methods to farmers Web-based ...

Continuing UTIA research will advance methods for sustainably preserving woodCredit: Photo by K. Keel-Blackmon, courtesy UTIA. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- April ...

Contamination of rice with arsenic is a major problem in some regions of the world with high rice consumption. Now, ...

Credit: Inari Cold Spring Harbor, NY -- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) announced today an exclusive licensing agreement with partner ...

Credit: Monika Dzieciol AMES, Iowa - Some aged cheeses cause allergy-like reactions in many people, but an Iowa State University ...

Credit: Mississippi State University St. Paul, MN (March 28, 2019)--The 2018 Mississippi State University (MSU) Row Crop Short Course, held ...

Credit: Bruno Basso Farmers can't predict their annual corn harvest with certainty, but with the help of new research from ...

Rutgers-led study may lead to improved breeding of corn and other cropsCredit: Hugo Dooner/Waksman Institute of Microbiology Pollen genes mutate ...

Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Scientists at the University of Illinois have developed new hybrids of ...