Tag: Agriculture

Are bananas actually that slippery? Could spinach give you superhuman strength? And what the heck is Toon Acid? This week, ...

The wild relatives of chile peppers, pumpkins, carrots, and lettuce join a growing list of poorly conserved plant species; these ...

Scientists tossed aside the shovel and studied cassava roots as they grew in real-time, suspended in the air. The innovative ...

Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, Dec. 12, 2019 -- Ready to kick back and relax by the fire this ...

Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- A virus that afflicts cattle that was first discovered in Japan ...

International team led by Göttingen University studies protection of coastal communities in biodiversity hotspotsCredit: Thomas Wanger As sea levels rise ...

A team of scientists from Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University discovered that micromolar selenium doses increase the levels of useful ...

Credit: Shanti Morell-Hart New research from anthropologists at McMaster University and California State University, San Bernardino (CSUSB), is shedding light ...

Publication by HHU and the University of Hohenheim in Food Research InternationalCredit: BeckaBeck The scientists compared taste and aroma of ...

Credit: Jake Shreckhise You may have heard how excess nutrients, such as phosphorus, can run off of crop fields. This ...

Credit: John Finn The benefits of multispecies mixtures were so strong that yields from a mixture of four species under ...

New research shows that for every £1 invested in pollinator monitoring schemes, at least £1.50 can be saved, from otherwise ...

$3 million grant awarded to study causes, impact of grapevine virusCredit: Raul Girardello/UC Davis University of California, Davis, scientists will ...

Credit: De-Wei Li, Neil P. Schultes, James A. LaMondia, and Richard S. Cowles Grown as Christmas trees, Fraser firs are ...