In western Colorado, home to the treasured Palisade peach, cytospora canker is one of the most economically consequential fungal diseases faced by growers.
Agriculture
May 18, 2026
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According to a new multiyear analysis led by plant disease specialists from across the United States and Ontario, Canada, corn diseases cost farmers an estimated $13.8 billion USD from 2020 to 2023. The study, published in ...
Agriculture
May 18, 2026
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A CBBL research team led by Professor Balachandran Manavalan from the Department of Integrative Biotechnology at Sungkyunkwan University has developed DeepTYLCV, an accurate and interpretable artificial intelligence model ...
Biotechnology
May 15, 2026
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The genomics of peppermint are not as fresh as their flavor but scientists from the University of California, Davis, have found a way to breathe new genetic variation into the species. The findings, published in the Proceedings ...
Biotechnology
May 14, 2026
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Stevia is a widely used sweetener, but why do some stevia varieties taste cleaner and more sugar-like than others? Recent research conducted at the University of Toyama shows that stevia's sweetness is genetically linked ...
Molecular & Computational biology
May 14, 2026
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Researchers at the São Carlos Institute of Physics at the University of São Paulo (IFSC-USP) in Brazil, led by Paulo Augusto Raymundo-Pereira, have created biodegradable, "wearable" sensors for plants to monitor their health, ...
Biotechnology
May 14, 2026
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A recent Minnesota Pollution Control Agency report found that climate change could cost Minnesotans more than $20 billion a year by 2040. This is just the local cost of a global problem. Ecosystem stability is essential to ...
Ecology
May 14, 2026
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The successive heat waves that sweep across southern Spain in summer have harmful effects on the entire community that lives there, from humans to the microbes that inhabit the soil. Both share an impressive resilience that ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 14, 2026
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Most Americans tend to think about bats only around Halloween, but the U.S. economy benefits from these furry flying mammals every day.
Ecology
May 14, 2026
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Rice plants and Venus flytraps share something in common that was not scientifically documented until recently. Using a faint smell to lure caterpillars into a trap, rice plants killed early-stage fall armyworm larvae by ...
Ecology
May 13, 2026
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