Representatives with multiple agencies including the CDC, the United States Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration on May 1 discussed the latest news about bird flu in the U.S.
Agriculture
May 2, 2024
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How wheat and buckwheat respond to drought situations with high CO2 and high temperatures was investigated in the Department of Plant Biology and Ecology
Plants & Animals
Jun 28, 2024
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A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in China, working with a colleague from Germany, has boosted the yield of rice by 40% by giving test plants a second copy of a certain gene. In their paper published ...
Watermelon is a globally significant agricultural product, both in terms of the total amount produced and the total economic value generated.
Biotechnology
Aug 11, 2023
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Powerful new genetic engineering methods have given scientists the potential to revolutionize several sectors of global urgency.
Molecular & Computational biology
Mar 6, 2021
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Vernon Hollingsworth grew up in Florida among his family's orange trees, recently ravaged by a double whammy of disease and a hurricane that have sent juice prices spiraling and left farmers blinking in disbelief.
Agriculture
Mar 30, 2023
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A team of authors from Uganda and the U.K. with backgrounds in botany, agriculture and the coffee industry has published an article in the journal Nature Plants, pointing out that that the world's coffee growers may soon ...
When faced with conditions that are too dry, salty, or cold, most plants try to conserve resources. They send out fewer leaves and roots and close up their pores to hold in water. If circumstances don't improve, they eventually ...
Plants & Animals
May 2, 2022
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Even though sales of non-alcoholic beer have risen substantially in Denmark and Europe in the last couple of years, there are still many people that won't follow the healthy trend because they find the taste not to be quite ...
Biotechnology
Feb 11, 2022
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It turns out sunflowers are more than just a pretty face: the ultraviolet colors of their flowers not only attract pollinators, but also help the plant regulate water loss, according to new UBC research.
Ecology
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