With droughts in the United States increasingly impacting wheat production, many producers are looking for more durable alternatives. Researchers from Drexel University, the University of Pennsylvania, City University of ...
Agriculture
Apr 15, 2025
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Targeting a newly discovered vulnerability in the signals that cyst nematodes use to infect plant roots could be a powerful method for reducing the damage the parasitic worms cause in crops such as soybeans, according to ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 18, 2025
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The avian flu virus continues to affect poultry producers and dairy farms in 2025. In North Carolina alone, the virus has resulted in the loss of millions of birds on poultry farms. Meanwhile, less than a year after avian ...
Veterinary medicine
Apr 18, 2025
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Small-scale farmers in Rwanda are enjoying bumper harvests of fruit and vegetables after trying out climate-proof seeds, according to project leaders.
Agriculture
Apr 14, 2025
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Nearly 17% of the world's croplands are contaminated with "heavy metals," according to a new study in Science. These contaminants—arsenic, cadmium, lead, and others—may be invisible to the eye, but they threaten food ...
Agriculture
Apr 18, 2025
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Strawberry fields will forever exist for the in-demand fruit, but the laborers who do the backbreaking work of harvesting them might continue to dwindle. While raised, high-bed cultivation somewhat eases the manual labor, ...
Biotechnology
Apr 16, 2025
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Since time immemorial, plants and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi have coexisted in a mutually beneficial relationship. The fungi colonize plant roots and help them absorb nutrients. In return, plants provide the fungi with ...
Ecology
Apr 16, 2025
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In plants, the space between cells is a key battleground during infection. To avoid recognition in this space, a strain of the bacterial tomato disease Pseudomonas syringae manipulates plants by producing a substance called ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Apr 17, 2025
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From soft robots crawling through crops to bio-based fertilizers that protect waterways, the future of farming lies at the intersection of scientific disciplines, according to a new study describing how agriculture's toughest ...
Biotechnology
Apr 17, 2025
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Potato growers face a persistent late-season threat: aerial stem rot (ASR), a bacterial disease primarily caused by Pectobacterium carotovorum. Often emerging after thunderstorms and other weather events, ASR has long been ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 15, 2025
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