In the early 1990s, horticulture professor Avtar Handa developed a transgenic tomato with a thicker juice that yields 10 percent more tomato paste than…
Research by USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station (SRS) scientists shows that the impacts of recent outbreaks of southern pine beetle further degraded…
How species diversity is maintained is a fundamental question in biology. In a new study, a team of Indiana University biologists has shown for the first time…
“The biggest thing that stands out about this new variety, BetaGene, is that it’s both a high yielding variety and high in beta glucan. Beta glucan is a…
Researchers now believe that such avian expressiveness may be more than idle chatter. A collaborative project being conducted by the Georgia Institute of…
Ladybugs and other predatory insects eat crop pests, saving farmers an estimated $4.6 billion a year on insecticides. Non-crop plants provide these predatory…
Sherrier leads one of four research groups participating in this project, which represents a collaborative effort between researchers at the Noble Foundation,…
Using a powerful DNA sequencing technique, called pyrosequencing, a team led by USDA-ARS scientists Terrence Gardner and Veronica Acosta-Martínez analyzed the…
A plant pathologist at the University of California, Riverside has identified a fungus that has been linked to the branch dieback and general decline of…
A new innovation can completely reshape an industry– inspiring both optimism and debate. The development of genetically engineered (GE) crops in the 1980's…
The requirement for efficient mosquito mass-rearing technology has been one of the major obstacles preventing the large scale application of the Sterile Insect…
This means just a few towering white fir, sugar pine and incense cedars per acre at the Yosemite site are disproportionately responsible for photosynthesis,…
Although organic techniques may not be able to do the job alone, they do have an important role to play in feeding a growing global population while minimizing…
In a variant of maize known as pod corn, or tunicate maize, the maize kernels on the cob are not ‘naked’ but covered by long membranous husks known as glumes….
According to T. D. Schowalter, author of a new open-access article in the Journal of Integrated Pest Management called “Ecology and Management of Bark Beetles…
Left-sided displacement of the abomasum (LDA) is an economically important disease in Holstein dairy cattle populations all over the world. The bovine abomasum…
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