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Biotechnology Mar 20, 2024

Novel method to measure root depth may lead to more resilient crops

As climate change worsens global drought conditions, hindering crop production, the search for ways to capture and store atmospheric carbon causing the phenomenon has intensified. Penn State researchers have developed a new ...

Economics & Business Mar 19, 2024

New baseline food and agricultural outlook report

Farm commodity prices have tumbled from the peak levels they rose to during spring 2022—and new projections suggest that downward pressure on prices could continue throughout 2024 and beyond.

Biochemistry Mar 19, 2024

Is food waste the key to sustainable, plastic-free diapers and sanitary pads?

Once thrown away, disposable items such as diapers and sanitary pads can take hundreds of years to decompose, because their absorbent parts and waterproof layers contain plastics and other synthetic polymers. But now, researchers ...

Optics & Photonics Mar 1, 2024

Mass-produced, commercially-promising multicolored photochromic fiber

Fiber, as the wearable material with the longest application in the history of humankind, is currently an ideal substrate for wearable devices due to its excellent breathability, flexibility, and ability to adapt perfectly ...

Agriculture Feb 20, 2024

Analysis of coastal perspectives of seafood farming expansion in the United States

Wild-caught or farmed? If you have no idea how to answer this question, don't worry—you aren't alone. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, most Americans know little to nothing about seafood ...

Agriculture Feb 19, 2024

Natural pesticides gain ground in 'agri-tox' capital Brazil

Inspecting a thriving green field, Brazilian farmer Adriano Cruvinel is beaming: Using a fraction of the chemical products he used to, he is growing even more soy, thanks to natural pesticides.

Molecular & Computational biology Feb 7, 2024

Study finds corn genome can gang up on multiple pathogens at once

In a changing climate, corn growers must be ready for anything, including new and shifting disease dynamics. Because it's impossible to predict which damaging disease will pop up in a given year, corn with resistance to ...

Environment Feb 1, 2024

Agriculture built these High Plains towns. Now, it might run them dry

Brownie Wilson pulls off a remote dirt road right through a steep ditch and onto a farmer's field.

Biotechnology Jan 31, 2024

Method combines artificial intelligence and satellite imagery to map crop-livestock integration systems

Crop-livestock integration (CLI) systems combine the growing of crops in rotation or consortium, especially grain crops such as soybeans, corn and sorghum, and forage plants used to feed cattle and pigs, with the raising ...

Molecular & Computational biology Jan 30, 2024

Researchers use metabolic model to study temperature stress on corn

A research team led by Nebraska scientists has built the largest-ever metabolic model of corn to study how temperature stress affects the plant and how a certain fungus can help alleviate the problem.

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