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UMass Amherst Food Scientist on School Meals Panel
Yeonhwa Park, assistant professor of food science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, was the only food scientist on the 15-member national Committee on Nutrition Standards for National School...
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Read moreMSU scientist helps map potato genome; move will improve crop yield
"The potato is the most important vegetable worldwide," said Robin Buell, an MSU associate professor of plant biology. She was part of the consortium that released the first draft sequence o...
Agricultural and Forestry Science | Read morePotato Blight Reveals Some Secrets as Genome Is Decoded
This week (Sept. 9), the online edition of the scientific journal Nature will report on the full genetic sequence, or genome, of Phytophthora infestans, the cause of late blight. The genome resulted f...
Life Sciences | Read moreGenome of Irish Potato Famine Pathogen Decoded
Published in the September 9 online issue of the journal Nature, the study reveals that the organism boasts an unusually large genome size — more than twice that of closely related species — and an ex...
Life Sciences | Read morePotato blight plight looks promising for food security
Using pathogen genomics, Professor Paul Birch from the Division of Plant Sciences, University of Dundee (at Scottish Crop Research Institute - SCRI), alongside researchers from Warwick HRI and the Uni...
Life Sciences | Read moreLate Blight - the Irish Potato Famine Fungus - Is Attacking Northeast Gardens and Farms Now
"Late blight has never occurred this early and this widespread in the U.S," said Meg McGrath, associate professor of plant pathology and plant-microbe biology.One of the most visible...
Agricultural and Forestry Science | Read moreEuropean Commission to fund new research project / WWU takes leading role
The aim of the project is to develop new types of enzymes in order to make the best possible use of certain complex sugar molecules in the food industry and for technical and medical applications....
Life Sciences | Read moreIowa State University researcher looks at the future of agriculture
Despite these recent uncertainties, 'up' is precisely the direction an Iowa State researcher believes agriculture is headed for at least the next 10 years. Wally Huffman, professor i...
Agricultural and Forestry Science | Read morePesticide exposure found to increase risk of Parkinson's disease
The fertile soil of California's Central Valley has long made it famous as one of the nation's prime crop-growing regions. But it's not just the soil that allows for such productivity. ...
Health and Medicine | Read morePoison: It's What's for Dinner - Thanks to Packrat Genes
“It was either eat it or move out,” says biology Professor Denise Dearing, senior author of the study, published online Tuesday, April 7 in the journal Molecular Ecology.During the study, eigh...
Life Sciences | Read moreUnderstanding natural crop defenses
Now, an international team of scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and the Institute of Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas Vinculadas a la Agronomía (IFEVA) has discovered ho...
Agricultural and Forestry Science | Read moreGlobal seed vault marks 1-year anniversary with 4-ton shipment of critical food crops
Four tons of seeds - almost 90,000 samples of hundreds of crop species - from food crop collections maintained by Canada, Ireland, Switzerland, USA, and three international agricultural research cente...
Agricultural and Forestry Science | Read moreIn another part of Thailand: Equality promotes cooperation
But Lena Örnberg, an economic historian at Lund University in Sweden, shows in her dissertation on contract farming and modernization that farmers do not have to be seen as victims. On the contrary, t...
Social Sciences | Read moreThe Investigators TV Series looks at Crops of the Future
Ireland’s scientific researchers are punching above their weight on the world stage and are quietly making a significant contribution to the improvement of our daily lives. This TV series will look at...
Agricultural and Forestry Science | Read moreNew EU Crop Protection Regulation has serious economic consequences
Yields could decrease by as much as 50 to 100 percent due to the major reduction in pesticides allowed for crops such as roses, chrysanthemums, cucumbers, Brussels sprouts, spring-sown onions, tulips ...
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