Agricultural and Forestry Science
Today: a Butter Sculpture; Tomorrow: Sustainable Fuel
Nine hundred pounds of butter, sculpted into a tribute to New York state’s dairy farmers and positioned as a centerpiece attraction at the New York State Fair,…
Can Biofuels be Sustainable?
Corn stover is made up of the leaves and stalks of corn plants that are left in the field after harvesting the edible corn grain. Corn stover could supply as…
Measuring Calcium in Serpentine Soils
Research published this month in the Soil Science Society of America Journal shows that multiple measurement techniques are needed to accurately measure…
Tracking a crop disease could save millions of lives
Maize streak virus (MSV) causes the main virus disease of Africa's most important food crop. By comparing the genome of the virus to those of its less harmful…
MSU’s discovery of plant protein holds promise for biofuel production
Chloroplasts, which are specialized compartments in plant cells, convert sunlight, carbon dioxide and water into sugars and oxygen (“fuel” for the plant)…
New 52-city report examines use of wastewater in urban agriculture
As developing countries confront the first global food crisis since the 1970s as well as unprecedented water scarcity, a new 53-city survey conducted by the…