Agricultural & Forestry Science

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Kenya Advances National Food and Nutrition Policy Initiative

The Friedman team, led by Gary Gleason, PhD, associate professor at the Friedman School, is assisting the Kenyan government with translating the policy…

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Scientists Discover Key Mechanism for Plant Flowering

The study reveals the likely mechanism by which the Arabidopsis plant flowers in response to changes in day length. Earlier research had shown that plants’…

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Exploring Antioxidants: Benefits and Drawbacks of Plant Sources

Researcher Dr. Susanne Mertens-Talcott of Texas A&M University is looking into how plant-based phytochemicals, including antioxidants and herbal supplements,…

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Post Oak Grasshoppers: Insights Into Their Life Cycle and Behavior

They're post oak grasshoppers, and Behmer, a Texas Agricultural Experiment Station entomologist, wants to research their life cycle and behavior. If you…

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Study projects effects of forest management in Oregon's Coast Range

Since 1995, Pacific Northwest (PNW) Research Station scientists and their colleagues from Oregon State University and the Oregon Department of Forestry have…

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Queens’s scientists reveal first settlers to colonise Ireland

The research has revealed that despite few animals or plants surviving the millennia of freezing cold and ice, the Irish stoats had real staying power. The…

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UGR Researchers Use Bacteria for Food Biopreservatives

Marina Sánchez Hidalgo, member of the research group and author of the doctoral thesis entitled ‘Caracterización de variantes de la enterocina AS-48 obtenidas…

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Collagen-Injected Meatballs: Boosting Nutrient Retention

Injecting meatballs with collagen can help the meat to retain the important nutrients iodine and thiamine, a new study by researchers from the Agricultural…

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Possible Breakthrough in Tomato Cultivation: Grey Mould Research

Finkers started off with wild tomato accessions that were resistant to grey mould. When crossing the resistant wild tomato Solanum habrochaites LYC4 with the…

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Fertilizers Boost Crop Yields for Zimbabwean Farmers

Ncube studied smallholder farms in the southwest of Zimbabwe. She mapped resource flows and carried out field experiments. The Zimbabwean semi-arid regions are…

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Satellite Images Enhance Agricultural Reforms Monitoring

Using very high resolution (VHR) satellite images for monitoring whether land is safeguarded in Good Agricultural and Environmental Condition (GAEC), as…

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East Africa Farmers Boosted by New Curriculum for FFS

This follows the collaboration of these organisations towards the development of a curriculum for Farmers Field Schools (FFS) on the icipe’s ‘push-pull’…

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Exploring Human Emotions in Relation to Plants

The dissertation Life, Mood, and Meaning deals with the relationship between humans and things, addressing the feelings of humans in relation to plants in the…

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Can Trees Really Offset Our Carbon Footprint? New Study Insights

But the study concludes that planting new trees in certain parts of the planet may actually warm the Earth.The new study, which combines climate and…

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Earliest Evidence of Maize Farming Found in Mexico

Professor Mary Pohl conducted an analysis of sediments in the Gulf Coast of Tabasco, Mexico, and concluded that people were planting crops in the “New World”…

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Slow but sure — Burned forest lands regenerate naturally

The research, to be published Wednesday in the Journal of Forestry by scientists from Oregon State University, examined the recovery of conifers on 35 plots…

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