A new guide for communicating plant science
Credit: Iowa State University News Service AMES, Iowa - A lot is riding on the continued advancement of plant sciences. ...
Tag: Food/Food Science
Sunlight to solve the world’s clean water crisis
Credit: University of South Australia Researchers at UniSA have developed a cost-effective technique that could deliver safe drinking water to ...
Betting on drones as smart agricultural tools for pesticide use in farms
Researchers assess whether drones can spray pesticides better than conventional technologies in terms of cost, capacity, and management efficiencyCredit: Yuna ...
How we can reduce food waste and promote healthy eating
Credit: College of ACES, University of Illinois. URBANA, Ill. - Food waste and obesity are major problems in developed countries. ...
Cultivating Matsutake, valuable edible fungi
Credit: Copyright © 2021, Akiyoshi Yamada et al., under exclusive license to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature Costing ...
UMass Amherst joins partnership to develop sustainable food products
Big Idea Ventures chooses university collaborators for $125 million Generation Food Rural Partners fundCredit: UMass Amherst The University of Massachusetts ...
Consumers are willing to pay for ecosystem services
Credit: Diverfarming Many consumers are willing to pay for improved environmental quality and thus non-market values of impacts of food ...
Plastic planet: Tracking pervasive microplastics across the globe
Credit: Janice Brahney/S.J. & Jessie E. Quinney College of Natural Resources at Utah State University. Really big systems, like ocean ...
Leader in global nitrogen cycle research Eric Davidson named Jefferson Science Fellow
Credit: University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science CAMBRIDGE, MD (April 12, 2021)--University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Professor ...
For tomato genes, one plus one doesn’t always make two
Credit: Xingang Wang/Lippman lab, CSHL/2021 Both people and tomatoes come in different shapes and sizes. That is because every individual ...
Can we end the cage age?
Switch to cage-free alternatives for farm animals is possible, but only with appropriate supporting measuresCredit: Kipster Between 2018 and 2020, ...
UT Business and Online Marketing project for farmers among the nation’s best
UT Extension project recognized twice for risk management educationCredit: Image courtesy UTIA. COLUMBIA, Tenn. - A project led by the ...
The science of turning milk into cheese
Credit: University of Córdoba The global production of sheep's milk is one the rise, in the vast majority of cases ...
Wild barley from Jordan holds key to stem rust resistance
Credit: Eva Henningsen Stem rust is a devastating disease of cereal crops, including barley, one of the first domesticated crops ...