Bean tree plan to protect Amazon
Credit: Toby Pennington Amazon deforestation could be slowed by planting bean trees that would keep soils fertile and help smallholders ...
Tag: Fertilizers/Pest Management
First report of cotton blue disease in the United States
Credit: Kathy Lawrence and Auburn University St. Paul, MN (October, 2019)--In August 2017, Kathy S. Lawrence, a plant pathologist at ...
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 ...
Rice blast fungus discovery will drive crop innovation
Credit: Nick Talbot A secret weapon used by the killer rice blast fungus to infect host plants has been discovered ...
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 ...
New survey confirms muscadine grapes are affected by parasitic nematodes
Credit: Ganpati B. Jagdale Native to the Southeastern United States, muscadine grapes are a superfruit. With high levels of resveratrol, ...
Family of crop viruses revealed at high resolution for the first time
Credit: Univeristy of Leeds For the first-time we can take a molecular-level look at one of the world's deadliest crop ...
CABI scientists track wheat aphids and their natural enemies for better pest management in Pakistan
For the first time, CABI scientists have studied the distribution and population dynamics of wheat aphids and their natural enemies ...
Researchers find multiple effects on soil from manure from cows administered antibiotics
Credit: Carl Wepking/CSU Use of antibiotics is under heightened scrutiny due to the increased prevalence of antibiotic-resistant pathogens. While the ...
How plants react to fungi
Credit: Michaela Kopischke Plants are under constant pressure from fungi and other microorganisms. The air is full of fungal spores, ...
The benefits of updating agricultural drainage infrastructure
Credit: Michael Castellano AMES, Iowa - Massive networks of drains, pipes and tiles that enable food production on much of ...
Biologists track the invasion of herbicide-resistant weeds into southwestern Ontario
Credit: Julia Kreiner TORONTO, ON (Canada) - A team including evolutionary biologists from the University of Toronto (U of T) ...
The global phosphorus crisis
An international team of scientists call to actionCredit: SDU/Lene Esthave Phosphorus is an essential resource for the world's food production. ...
Turning up the heat for weed control
Credit: Doug Spaunhorst Weeds are thieves. They steal nutrients, sunlight and water from our food crops. In the case of ...
Crappy news for the dung beetle and those who depend on them
Credit: Daniel González-Tokman You mightn't think that the life of a dung beetle, a creature who eats poop every day ...
Scientists set to start $10M project to create health diagnosis tool for bees
York University to develop 'BeeCSI' tool to help Canada's rapidly declining honey beesCredit: York University TORONTO, September 18, 2019 - ...
How nitrogen-fixing bacteria sense iron
Credit: University of East Anglia Researchers at the University of East Anglia have discovered how nitrogen-fixing bacteria sense iron - ...
Hiding in plain sight
Early rice farmers unwittingly selected for weedy impostersCredit: Jordan R. Brock/Washington University Early rice growers unwittingly gave barnyard grass a ...
Palmer amaranth’s molecular secrets reveal troubling potential
Credit: Pat Tranel, University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - Corn, soybean, and cotton farmers shudder at the thought of Palmer ...