For home gardeners and farmers, herbivorous insects present a major threat to their hard work and crop yields. The predator insects that feed on these…
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A new study from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign helps define the global relationship between sustainable agriculture and sanitation technology. Credit: Photo by L. Brian…
Credit: NASA Every day – up to thirty times a day, in fact – one of Mark Mason’s employees at Nature’s Reward Farms in Monterey…
An international review study details for the first time how biochar improves the root zone of a plant. A product made from urban, agriculture, and…
Matthew Hufford is the first author of a study detailing the genomes of 26 lines of corn. Hufford said the sheer genetic diversity present in…
This illustration shows the utopian farm robot scenario. Credit: Natalis Lorenz No longer science fiction, farm robots are already here — and they have created…
While USDA has monitored crops around the world for almost a century, the discovery that satellites can “see” greening of vegetation has revolutionized agricultural monitoring…
Shiikuwasha have an important commercial value in Okinawa and are used to create many different products. Within Okinawa, Oogimi and Katsuyama are the biggest citrus…
‘Unshackled’ Palm-Destroying Beetles Could Soon Invade Australia – “We Thought We’d Outsmarted Them”
An adult coconut rhinoceros beetle in hand. Credit: Forest and Kim Starr A destructive pest beetle is edging closer to Australia as biological controls fail,…
CLSY3 (fused with a yellow fluorescent protein) is specifically expressed in the tapetal cells surrounding the germ cells. Credit: John Innes Centre Hereditary information is…
Catching a big blue barrel floating on the ocean surface in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch from the German research vessel SONNE during expedition SO268/3…
Researchers used NIST’s agricomb to simultaneously measure emissions of methane, ammonia, carbon dioxide and water vapor from the atmosphere around a beef cattle feedlot in…
COVID-19’s socio-economic effects will likely cause another severe production crisis in the coffee industry, according to a Rutgers University-led study. Credit: Zack Guido COVID-19’s socio-economic…
MIT researchers have found a way to achieve high yields of ethanol with different types of cellulosic feedstocks, including switchgrass, wheat straw, and corn stover.…
Wine grapes are particularly finicky when it comes to their environment. For instance, heatwaves and droughts lead to earlier berry ripening and lackluster wine. And…
Homalictus fijiensis, a common bee in the lowlands of Fiji. Credit: James Dorey, Flinders University Early land clearance helped Fijian pollinators. After centuries of human…
CRISPR illustration. Credit: National Institutes of Health Multiplexed gene activation system allows for four to six times the activation capacity of current CRISPR technology, with…
In a new paper, researchers present a method to more efficiently produce biofuels from woody plant materials such as corn residues and some grasses. Credit:…
Investments in agricultural research, water management, infrastructure can avert climate-fueled growth in hunger. In order to prevent the impacts of climate change from pushing an…
Cantils, so named for their cantilever function of supporting the flower-bearing stalk, are newly reported plant structures that develop in wild-type Arabidopsis as a consequence…