Tag: Agriculture

Credit: Kathy Lawrence and Auburn University St. Paul, MN (October, 2019)--In August 2017, Kathy S. Lawrence, a plant pathologist at ...

Next-generation sequencing used to identify cotton blue disease in the United States

Credit: Plant Management Network and Judith K. Brown St. Paul, MN (October, 2019)--Cotton blue disease, caused by Cotton leafroll dwarf ...

How roots grow hair

'Smoke detectors' in plants also control the growth of root hairCredit: Andreas Battenberg / TUM The roots of plants can ...

Changes in photochemical reflectance index can be used to monitor crop condition

Lobachevsky University researchers improve methods for remote monitoring of the condition of crops grown in fields and greenhouses, including the ...

SUTD’s breakthrough research allows for 3D printed chocolate without temperature control

SUTD's new approach to the 3D printing of chocolate using cold extrusion instead of conventional hot-melt extrusion method eliminates the ...

Photosynthesis olympics: can the best wheat varieties be even better?

Credit: Dr Viridiana Silva-Perez/CoETP Scientists have put elite wheat varieties through a sort of "Photosynthesis Olympics" to find which varieties ...

Old friends and new enemies: How evolutionary history can predict insect invader impacts

Credit: Jeff Garnas/University of New Hampshire About 450 nonnative, plant-eating insect species live in North American forests. Most of these ...

First Genome of Spotted Lanternfly Built from a Single Insect

Credit: ARS-USDA HILO, HAWAII, October 16, 2019--Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists, in cooperation with Pacific Biosciences and Penn State University, ...

UC Riverside helps secure the future of food

$3 million program to train tomorrow's plant scientistsCredit: Stan Lim/UCR If you're eating fruits, nuts, grains, or vegetables in a ...

Clemson researcher creating perennial grasses that need less water and are fuel source

Credit: Clemson College of Science CLEMSON, South Carolina -- Clemson University College of Science Professor Hong Luo has received a $500,000 grant ...

How hunger makes food tastier: a neural circuit in the hypothalamus

Researchers at the National Institute for Physiological Sciences in Okazaki identify the neural pathways that cause hunger-induced increases in the ...

Bolivian forager-farmers with amazing heart health are split over what makes a good life

Lifestyle may be central to maintaining health in a small society undergoing change in livelihood and nutrition, Baylor University researcher ...

Alfalfa and potassium: It’s complicated

Credit: Deborah Samac Has anyone ever told you to eat a banana when you have a muscle cramp or eye ...

Harnessing plasmonics for precision agriculture worldwide