Contrary to the prevailing view, cereal crops derive the majority of their nitrogen from the soil, not fertilizer. Soils differ considerably in microbial…
Even for Northern shrimp (Pandalus borealis), which support commercial fisheries worldwide, timing is everything in life. The tiny creatures, eaten in shrimp…
Creating diverse forests for multiple uses is important to natural resource managers and landowners. A study conducted in southwestern Oregon provides forest…
Arkansas – home of thousands of backyard gardens, farmer’s markets, and a summer festival that pays annual homage to the tomato – also is home to a team of…
Crop water use efficiency (WUE, or yield per unit of water used), also known as crop water productivity, can be improved through irrigation management and…
With each passing year, the human population of our planet continues to expand. This growth has created a wide ranging strain on our water and soil resources,…
Tomatoes come in a variety of sizes and shapes, making them the perfect subject to test shape-analyzing software. The Tomato Analyzer is “rapidly becoming the…
To grow the high-quality potted plants preferred by consumers, many growers use chemical “regulators” designed to affect plant growth and development. The use…
In the last 50 years levels of plant-available nitrogen and phosphorous have doubled worldwide. This additional supply of plant nutrients is predicted to be…
Using infrared lasers and light spectroscopy methods, Lisa Mauer, an associate professor of food science, was able to detect melamine in baby formula at one…
Over the past decade, the use of online courses in post-secondary education has gone from an experiment to an all out explosion, as institutions look at new…
Landfilled waste decomposes in the absence of oxygen and results in the production of methane. Landfills are classified as the second-largest human-made source…
The U.S. Department of Agriculture and the National Institutes of Health announced today that an international consortium of researchers has published the…
Sequencing the bovine genome is now complete, paving the way for research into more sustainable food production, taking into account the needs of an increasing…
The findings, published in two reports in the journal Science today, will have a profound impact on Australia’s livestock industry.CSIRO scientists were among…
Their findings, published in the open-access, peer-reviewed journal PLOS ONE, conclude that biofuel crops proposed for use in the Hawaiian Islands are two to…
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