The advance will give researchers the tools to produce higher yields, improve pest and disease resistance, and enhance the nutritional value of barley.Importantly, it also will “accelerate breeding improvements to help barley adapt to climate change,” says Gary Muehlbauer, head of the Department of Plant Biology, a joint department of the university’s College of Biological Sciences and the College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences. “That means making barley more resistant to drought and able to use water and nitrogen more efficiently.”…
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For most, to find evidence that recent years' droughts have been record-breaking, they need not look past the withering garden or lawn. For Henri…
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“Resource Preservation by Application of BIOefFECTORs in European Crop Production” (BIOFECTOR) is a unique project in European Union’s 7th Framework Programme,…
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Now, owing to an international collaboration of two dozen institutions led by the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) and the U.S….
Petri-dish experiments conducted by now-retired Agricultural Research Service (ARS) research leader Bruce C. Campbell, ARS molecular biologist Jong H. Kim, and…
Yale researchers examined the fossil record and genetic makeup of 489 out of more than 600 living conifer species and discovered that while most conifers…
The genomic technique, known as TALENS, is described in a report published today in the scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. The…
Researchers at Oregon State University recently outlined the latest findings on reduced height growth in trees through genetic modification, and concluded that…
Combine the tree-ring growth record with historical information, climate records, and computer-model projections of future climate trends, and you get a grim…
Farmer Gary Wagner walks into his field where the summer leaves on the sugar beet plants are a rich emerald hue — not necessarily a good color when it comes…
“Outdoor Recreation in the Northern United States,” a report recently published by the U.S. Forest Service’s Northern Research Station as GTR NRS-100,…
Even though beneficial root bacteria come to the rescue when a plant is being attacked by pathogens, there’s a dark side to the relationship between the plant…
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