Deforestation of the Amazon rainforest featured in international press headlines for a long time. However, Brazil has made substantial efforts to protect…
Modern, machine-friendly agriculture is dominated by monocultures. One single cultivar – one genotype of a crop species – is cultivated on large areas.
As worldwide temperatures rise and the earth sees extreme weather conditions in both summer and winter, a team of researchers with the University of Florida…
University of Illinois scientists reported in Archives of Virology evidence of the new mastrevirus, tentatively named switchgrass mosaic-associated virus 1…
Known as dopamine receptor antagonists, the chemicals beat out the neurotransmitter dopamine to lock into protein receptors that span the mosquito cell…
Our opponents always seem to be one step ahead. Although pest controllers now have numerous chemical preparations available, allowing them to take action…
In an article published today in the journal PLOS ONE, a team of University of Florida entomologists has documented that the Asian and Formosan subterranean…
A recent study from the Illinois Crop Physiology Laboratory, led by Fred Below, a U of I crop physiologist, provides the first estimate of the corn yield gap…
However, some of the plants will be infected by bacteria, leading to stunted growth and less nutritional value. Now, a University of Missouri research team has…
In a study published in Scientific Reports, a group at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science in Japan led by Ryoung Shin has identified a chemical…
Data from only a small number of gene variants can predict which maritime pine trees are most vulnerable to climate change, scientists report in the March…
Using natural soil components to trap pollutants will allow producers to control soil contaminants and reuse draining water while protecting their agricultural…
These findings, reported in the journal Evolution, may be of little interest to farmers, who generally grow only one type of plant and can always add more…
The production of materials and chemicals from renewable resources usually bases on biological or thermochemical processes. The latter possess the advantage of…
Healthy forest ecosystems need dead wood to provide important habitat for birds and mammals, but there can be too much of a good thing when dead wood fuels…
It’s about transforming corn stover, dried distillers grain solids (DDGS) and even native grasses into a product more than 1,000 times more valuable—graphene.
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