Agriculture in the 21st century is rapidly expanding its “product line,” aiming not only to provide society with food and fiber, but also biofuels,…
Now a team led by Dr Robin Allaby from the University of Warwick have developed a new mathematical model that shows how plant agriculture actually began much…
The findings, which have been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) of 9th September, bear significant implications for the…
Improved agricultural productivity can help developing countries reduce their reliance on international emergency food relief following natural disasters. This…
Until recently researchers say the story of the origin of agriculture was one of a relatively sudden appearance of plant cultivation in the Near East around…
Dr Codling, jointly appointed between the University's Departments of Mathematical Sciences and Biological Sciences, was successful in the National Environment…
Mónica Aguilera, an engineer from the Vegetable Physiology Unit at the University of Barcelona (UB) and co-author of the study, told SINC that the natural…
Now The University of Nottingham, with funding worth £2.2m, is to carry out a study of the most common cause of Bovine Mastitis in the UK — Streptococcus…
In the first major collaboration between a retailer and a University veterinary school, Wood Park farm – at the University’s Leahurst veterinary campus – will…
5789 plant species were classified as alien. 2843 originating outside of Europe, according to the researchers and their publication in the journal Preslia. By…
Now, writing in the International Journal of Technology and Globalisation researchers in The Netherlands point to possible causes for this disparity and offer…
“While many compounds have been reported to change in laboratory based drought stress experiments, few have identified how such compounds change in crops under…
The new study, from researchers at University of Illinois, appears this month in Plant Physiology Preview.Miscanthus x giganteus is one of the most productive…
This figure amounted to 9.5% of the total value of the world agricultural food production. The study also determined that pollinator disappearance would…
“We now know it's also in the genes of cattle,” said Juergen A. Richt, Regents Distinguished Professor of Diagnostic Medicine and Pathobiology at Kansas State…
Rokka studied the effects of bovine colostrum, of specific antibodies produced in the bovine colostrum by vaccinating cows, and of lactobacilli on infections…