Agricultural & Forestry Science

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Citrus Crops Under Threat: Battling Deadly Bacteria Outbreak

Americans may find a glass of their favorite breakfast staple, orange juice, hard to come by in the next few years if a certain bacteria has its way. According…

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Soybean Plants: New Resistance to Aphids Uncovered

Soybean aphids made their first appearance in North America in the summer of 2000, resulting in tremendous crop losses for farmers. U of I researchers began…

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Accelerating Sheep Breeding: New Genetic Test Insights

They conducted a simple genetic test to identify the presence of the unusual form of the gene, the so-called M allele that other researchers had suspected…

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Agricultural Research: A Pathway to Global Food Security

With nearly a billion people suffering from chronic hunger, global food security remains a major concern, despite being a key goal of the UN Millennium…

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Restoring Natural Root Signals to Combat Major Corn Pest

A longstanding and fruitful collaboration between researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology and the University of Neuchâtel in Switzerland,…

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Invasive Snail and Slug Species Assessment in the US

A collaborative team led by a University of Hawai'i at Manoa researcher has published the first-ever assessment of snail and slug species that are of potential…

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AgriLife Research Unlocks Secrets of Roadrunner Speed

Wile E. Coyote might not have been able to catch up with the roadrunner on the Saturday morning cartoons, but one Texas AgriLife Research scientist has had no…

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Higher CO2 Levels Could Boost Pine Tree Competitiveness

Carbon dioxide readings that high are expected everywhere by mid-century. The findings suggest some woody tree species could, in the future, out-compete…

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Large Trees Decline 24% in Yosemite: Causes and Insights

The number of large-diameter trees in the park declined 24 percent between the 1930s and 1990s. U.S. Geological Survey and University of Washington scientists…

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New Cowpea Lines Boost Aphid Resistance Through Breeding

Several new lines of cowpeas with genes that are aphid-resistant and less susceptible to disease are currently being tested by researchers with Texas AgriLife…

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Thai Farmers Enhance Rice Genetic Diversity for Future Crops

Rice is one of the most important crops worldwide, as it feeds over half of the world's population. Domesticated rice is an important supply of the world's…

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New method uses electrolyzed water for more efficient fuel production

When ethanol is produced, distiller's dried grain with solubles (DDGS) is a waste product. The DDGS is primarily used as animal feed, but researchers are…

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Alternative Farming Practices Boost Productivity and Soil Health

This fact prompted the Basque Institute for Agricultural Research and Development – Neiker-Tecnalia – to design a series of research projects in order to…

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Early rice harvests ease annual famine in Bangladesh

Monga is a yearly famine that occurs in northwest Bangladesh from September to November after the previous season’s food has run out and before the harvest of…

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Corn Yield Stability: Impact of Rotations and Fertility

Understanding temporal variability in crop yields has implications for sustainable crop production, particularly since greater fluxes in crop yields are…

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Helping High Elevation Pines Thrive at Waterton Lakes Park

Cripps' is working with resource managers and visitor relations staff from Waterton Lakes National Park (WLNP). She is part of a project that aims to restore…

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