"Have you ever wondered about life on a leaf?" Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) researcher Ashley Shade asks a simple question, but it's one well worth investigation.
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 22, 2023
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Innovative experiments using temperature-controlled field plots have helped to explain the link between early winter temperatures and yield in some of our most marketable arable crops.
Ecology
Sep 19, 2022
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Harvesting rice from the same field, without planting new rice plants? A discovery may bring this scenario closer. Leiden scientists have discovered a gene that allows annual plants to grow after flowering, instead of dying. ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 14, 2020
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Farmers in California's Central Valley are not known for their love of government regulations, but those same growers have seen a boost in the productivity of their high-value crops—and greater earnings—as a result of ...
Environment
Mar 16, 2020
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When it comes to biofuels, corn leads the all-important category of biomass yield. However, focusing solely on yield comes at a high price.
Environment
Jan 13, 2014
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A Washington State University researcher and colleagues make a case in the journal Nature for a new type of agriculture that could restore the beleaguered soils of Africa and help the continent feed itself in the coming decades.
Environment
Sep 19, 2012
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Earth-friendly perennial grain crops, which grow with less fertilizer, herbicide, fuel, and erosion than grains planted annually, could be available in two decades, according to researchers writing in the current issue of ...
Ecology
Jun 24, 2010
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The introduction of perennial crops in the alleys of Mediterranean dryland almond orchards reduces greenhouse gas emissions and increases soil carbon sequestration, according to the latest study within the Diverfarming project
Ecology
Sep 14, 2022
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Annual crops are the farmer's bread and butter, the crops they rely on most, but at least one type of perennial grain is proving much more beneficial to the environment.
Plants & Animals
Apr 21, 2022
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Traditional crops are not a good match for all farmland, such as parts of the North Carolina Piedmont region.
Biotechnology
Jul 7, 2021
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