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UrduCHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Scientists placed honey bee hives next to soybean fields in Iowa and tracked how the bees fared over the growing season. To the researchers’ surprise, the bees did well for much of the summer. The colonies thrived…
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A new world map rates food sustainability for countries across the globe
A global food system sustainability study builds the first map of its kind to score the sustainability of food systems, country-by-country. The study goes beyond usual questions of productivity and nutrition, and includes economic and social variables
Mexico City to host Interdrought 2020
Global conference will serve as forum for collaboration on crop production in water-limited environments.
Level up your Thanksgiving potatoes with this simple ingredient (video)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 25, 2019 — Making delicious roasted potatoes is all about finding the right texture and consistency. Here at Reactions, we were inspired to give it a go after seeing J. Kenji Lopez-Alt’s delicious recipe on Serious Eats. Today,…
Coated seeds may enable agriculture on marginal lands
A specialized silk covering could protect seeds from salinity while also providing fertilizer-generating microbes
Light-trapping nanocubes drive inexpensive multispectral camera
Plasmonic light detector could revolutionize multispectral imaging for cancer, food safety and agriculture
Hops compounds help with metabolic syndrome while reducing microbiome diversity
CORVALLIS, Ore. – Compounds from hops may combat metabolic syndrome by changing the gut microbiome and altering the metabolism of acids produced in the liver, new research at Oregon State University suggests. The findings, published in Molecular Nutrition and Food…
Mechanized harvesting has not reduced atmospheric pollution in the sugarcane region
Data presented by a researcher from UNESP at FAPESP Week France indicate that aerosol and ozone particle concentrations in 2018 were equivalent to those of the period prior to the prohibition of burning; the causes are still to be investigated
Forest farms could create market for ginseng, other herbs
A transition from wild collection of herbs to forest farming needs to occur in Appalachia to make the opaque, unstable and unjust supply chain for forest medicinal plants such as ginseng sustainable, according to a team of researchers who have…
Mexico City to host Interdrought 2020
Global conference will serve as forum for collaboration on crop production in water-limited environments.
The heat is on
nternational team of scientists complete the largest global assessment of ocean warming impacts
Coated seeds may enable agriculture on marginal lands
A specialized silk covering could protect seeds from salinity while also providing fertilizer-generating microbes
A study compares how water is managed in Spain, California and Australia
Turning on the faucet and having water come out has become such a common daily occurrence that nobody stops to think about it. In times of abundance, everything goes smoothly. However, when rain is scarce or almost inexistent and reservoir…
Hops compounds help with metabolic syndrome while reducing microbiome diversity
CORVALLIS, Ore. – Compounds from hops may combat metabolic syndrome by changing the gut microbiome and altering the metabolism of acids produced in the liver, new research at Oregon State University suggests. The findings, published in Molecular Nutrition and Food…
Meeting the challenges facing fisheries climate risk insurance
Insurance schemes with the potential to improve the resilience of global fisheries face a host of future challenges, researchers say. The world’s first “Fisheries Index Insurance” scheme, launched by an international consortium in July, is a sovereign-level instrument designed to…
A new world map rates food sustainability for countries across the globe
A global food system sustainability study builds the first map of its kind to score the sustainability of food systems, country-by-country. The study goes beyond usual questions of productivity and nutrition, and includes economic and social variables
A little prairie can rescue honey bees from famine on the farm, study finds
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Scientists placed honey bee hives next to soybean fields in Iowa and tracked how the bees fared over the growing season. To the researchers’ surprise, the bees did well for much of the summer. The colonies thrived…
Interaction with fungus containing N2-fixing endobacteria improves rice nitrogen nutrition
Nitrogen nutrition improved in rice by interaction with rhodotorula mucilaginosa and its N2-fixing endobacteria
NJIT’s Chrystoff Camacho wins an Edison patent award for an aerial reforestation device
Chrystoff Camacho, an inventor and budding entrepreneur who developed an aerial reforestation device while he was an engineering technology student at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), received a Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award from the Research & Development Council…
Changing experiences of the natural world
Digital innovations have the potential to bring people closer to nature, to help ensure there is the necessary strong public support for conservation measures. Examples below. Author Professor Les Firbank, from the University of Leeds’ School of Biology and Global…
UF Open House Invites Community to Engage with Science
The University of Florida Tropical Research and Education Center is in the heart of the tropical and subtropical fruit and vegetable industries, and the ornamental plant industry. For 90 years it has served as an agricultural research unit of the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS). On December 4, an open house invites community and media to engage with the science.
From the farm to the feast
Spark conversation with fun facts about Thanksgiving foods!
Using controlled environment food production to solve food shortages
Feeding the urban masses the smart way
Pollinator friendliness can extend beyond early spring
Keeping lawns pretty and pollinators happy
Using controlled environment food production to solve food shortages
Feeding the urban masses the smart way
Technology shown to reduce cancer-causing contaminants receives millions in funding
Innovation shown to reduce cancer-causing contaminants in drinking water, airports, military sites
In the war on emerging crop diseases, scientists develop new ‘War Room’ simulations
Farmers rely on seed systems for access to high-quality, disease-free planting material at the start of the season. Good seed systems ensure access to seed for a variety of crops that are affordable and fully available at the start of…
Pollinator friendliness can extend beyond early spring
Keeping lawns pretty and pollinators happy
The cause of chewy chicken meat
Wooden breast syndrome hurts the poultry industry by making chicken meat chewy. Researchers found gene expression irregularities suggesting it’s a metabolic disorder and could lead to short-term solutions. The findings may also inform human health research on metabolic syndromes such as diabetes.
Clay as a feed supplement in dairy cattle has multiple benefits
URBANA, Ill. – Dairy producers frequently add clay as a feed supplement to reduce the symptoms of aflatoxin and subacute ruminal acidosis (SARA) in lactating cows. In a new study from the University of Illinois, researchers show that clay can…
Planting on pasture land may provide sustainable alternative for oil palm plantations
Carbon neutral expansion of oil palm plantations in the Neotropics
When grown right, palm oil can be sustainable
Scientists from EPFL and WSL have been studying soils in oil palm cultivation for years, in an effort to develop more sustainable methods for growing this crop. Palm oil production has been criticized by environmentalists because of its large carbon…
Beyond the green revolution
There has been a substantial increase in food production over the last 50 years, but it has been accompanied by a narrowing in the diversity of cultivated crops. New research shows that diversifying crop production can make food supply more…
Beyond the green revolution
There has been a substantial increase in food production over the last 50 years, but it has been accompanied by a narrowing in the diversity of cultivated crops. New research shows that diversifying crop production can make food supply more…
RealEats wins $1M top prize in Grow-NY business competition
RealEats, a Geneva, New York-based company that delivers freshly made meals using locally sourced ingredients, has been named winner of the $1 million grand prize in the inaugural Grow-NY business competition. RealEats was one of seven finalists to take home prize money during the Grow-NY Food and Ag Summit, held Nov. 12-13 at the Joseph A. Floreano Riverside Convention Center in Rochester. The competition, which will also be held in 2020 and 2021, was administered by Cornell University’s Center for Regional Economic Advancement.
Potato virus Y is the most serious threat to potato — some strains more than others
Potato virus Y (PVY) is the most serious problem facing the potato industry in the United States and is the main cause for rejection of seed potato lots. The virus affects potatoes in two ways: It reduces the yield of…
Uncovering the pathway to wine’s acidity
University of Adelaide wine researchers say their latest discovery may one day lead to winemakers being able to manipulate the acidity of wines without the costly addition of tartaric acid. The team of researchers has uncovered a key step in…
Saving ‘half Earth’ for nature would affect over a billion people
As the extinction crisis escalates, and protest movements grow, some are calling for hugely ambitious conservation targets. Among the most prominent is sparing 50% of the Earth’s surface for nature. ‘Half Earth’ and similar proposals have gained traction with conservationists…
A ‘virtual tongue’ to predict the taste of food products is being developed
The University of Granada is participating in the VIRTUOUS project, with a budget of 1.1 million Euros, involving institutions from four European countries
A century later, plant biodiversity struggles in wake of agricultural abandonment
Decades after farmland was abandoned, plant biodiversity and productivity struggle to recover, according to new University of Minnesota research. Published in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, researchers examined 37 years of data tied to plant biodiversity (i.e., number of…
UMass Amherst food scientist receives Nils Foss award in Denmark
Distinguished professor globally respected for groundbreaking research
Nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas, is on the rise
A new study from an international group of scientists finds we are releasing more of the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide into the atmosphere than previously thought
Moss: a bio-monitor of atmospheric nitrogen deposition in the Yangtze River Delta
Atmospheric reactive nitrogen (N) deposition has more than doubled over the past century. It is very important to estimate the rates and sources of N deposition because it’s considered as a main factor of ecosystem structure changes, such as soil…
Implementing no-till and cover crops in Texas cotton systems
Healthy soil leads to productive and sustainable agriculture. Farmers who work with, not against, the soil can improve the resiliency of their land. Because of this, practices such as no-till and cover crops and topics such as regenerative agriculture and…
Potato virus Y is the most serious threat to potato — some strains more than others
Potato virus Y (PVY) is the most serious problem facing the potato industry in the United States and is the main cause for rejection of seed potato lots. The virus affects potatoes in two ways: It reduces the yield of…
Moss: a bio-monitor of atmospheric nitrogen deposition in the Yangtze River Delta
Atmospheric reactive nitrogen (N) deposition has more than doubled over the past century. It is very important to estimate the rates and sources of N deposition because it’s considered as a main factor of ecosystem structure changes, such as soil…
Implementing no-till and cover crops in Texas cotton systems
Healthy soil leads to productive and sustainable agriculture. Farmers who work with, not against, the soil can improve the resiliency of their land. Because of this, practices such as no-till and cover crops and topics such as regenerative agriculture and…
New process kills mosquito larvae using bacteria in the male’s gut microbiome
Ben-Gurion University team wins gold medal for research at 2019 iGem Competition
New process kills mosquito larvae using bacteria in the male’s gut microbiome
Ben-Gurion University team wins gold medal for research at 2019 iGem Competition
Seeing past the stigma
A review of the lesser known sides of the plant genus Erythroxylum