Vision for ultra-precision ag: Machine learning, plant sensing, robots tending crops
Credit: Photo by Ashlyn Rairdin and courtesy of Soumik Sarkar/Iowa State University AMES, Iowa - A gardener hoping for a ...
Tag: Agriculture
Combining solar panels and lamb grazing increases land productivity, study finds
Credit: Sean Nealon, Oregon State University CORVALLIS, Ore. - Land productivity could be greatly increased by combining sheep grazing and ...
CIMMYT and John Innes Centre announce strategic collaboration on wheat research
Credit: Photo: Kevin Pixley/CIMMYT, CIMMYT Centro Experimental Norman E. Borlaug, Ciudad Obregon, Mexico. April 29, 2021. The John Innes Centre ...
Wasps are valuable for ecosystems, economy and human health (just like bees)
Credit: Professor Seirian Sumner, UCL Wasps deserve to be just as highly valued as other insects, like bees, due to ...
El Niño can help predict cacao harvests up to 2 years in advance
Long-term weather data is absent in many places, complicating rain predictions for crops. Researchers found that the El Niño climate ...
Research gives trees an edge in landfill clean-up
Credit: Paul Manley, Missouri University of Science and Technology; used with permission Rhinelander, Wis., April 28, 2021-- A research team ...
A minty-fresh solution: Using a menthol-like compound to activate plant immune mechanisms
A menthol-like compound was found to boost the expression of genes that protect crop species from pest-related damageCredit: Tokyo University ...
Causes of extreme weather and climate events in China during 2020/21
Credit: Chunzai Wang During the summer of 2020, especially June and July, periods of extreme heavy rainfall occurred in China's ...
NYU Environmental Studies Professor Sonali Shukla McDermid named Carnegie Fellow
Credit: Mathew McDermid New York University's Sonali Shukla McDermid has been named an Andrew Carnegie Fellow, one of 26 selected ...
New edition provides updates on fungicides used to control turfgrass diseases
Credit: APS PRESS A Practical Guide to Turfgrass Fungicides, Second Edition, is a current, comprehensive, and hands-on resource focused specifically ...
Digital advisory services for smallholder families in Africa and Asia
Credit: © Grameen Foundation Smallholders produce two thirds of all food worldwide. Yet the majority of these approximately 500 million ...
Canola growth environments and genetics shape their seed microbiomes
Credit: Zayda Morales Moreira Just as humans receive the first members of their microbiomes from their mothers, seeds may harbor ...
Researchers show new holistic approach to genetics and plant breeding
Researchers have discovered new approach to cereal plant breeding that considers the internal calculator of plant seeds that makes them ...
NTU, Singapore Food Agency, and A*STAR launch Future Ready Food Safety Hub (FRESH)
Credit: NTU Singapore Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore), in partnership with the Singapore Food Agency (SFA) and the Agency for ...
Study of oak forests of European Russia elucidates climate change in the region
Kazan Federal University scientists offered a new approach to classification of Tatarstan vegetation in a recent paper.Credit: Kazan Federal University ...
Chinese hazelnut: The newest piece in the hazelnut genome puzzle
Scientists from China assembled a high-quality genome of Chinese hazelnut and were able to identify several genes of economic importanceCredit: ...
Inhibitory effect of strawberry geranium on inflammatory response in skin keratinocytes
Credit: Maruzen Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd Strawberry geranium (Saxifraga stolonifera) has been used in Japan as a herbal medicine to treat ...
Ancient Indigenous forest gardens promote a healthy ecosystem: SFU study
The researchers say this study marks the first time forest gardens have been studied in North AmericaCredit: SFU A new ...
Little crop of horrors
With genes from carnivorous plants, researchers aim to grow hardier crop plantsCredit: Tanya Renner, Penn State UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- ...
University, city mark Earth Day with grants for ‘green’ projects
Awards go to community sustainability programsCredit: Ed Brennen for UMass Lowell LOWELL, Mass. - In honor of Earth Day, UMass ...