Genomics Reveals the Hidden Blueprint for Supercharging Tropical Maize Hybrids
Researchers at IITA used more than 2,000 genome-wide SNP markers to redraw the heterotic groupings of 1,437 tropical maize inbred...
Fertilizer choice, not dose, drives nitrous oxide losses in drip-irrigated desert wheat
A Moroccan field trial found that switching from urea to nitrate-based fertilizers cut nitrous oxide emissions from drip-irrigated wheat nearly...
New Automated Pipeline Speeds Up Gene Hunting in Crop Breeding
Researchers have developed BSArray, an automated R Shiny pipeline that turns Illumina SNP array data into mapped quantitative trait loci,...
Sugar, Vinegar and Wine: A Kitchen-Recipe Trap Wiped Out a Major Waxberry Pest in Three Years
A three-year field trial in Jiangsu, China shows that green traps baited with a sugar-vinegar-wine mixture reduced the dominant waxberry...
Frequency-Boosted AI Sharpens Its Focus on Tiny Crop-Killing Fruit Flies
Researchers have developed a U-Net-based segmentation network that recovers high-frequency image details lost during downsampling, achieving record accuracy in segmenting...
DNA Barcodes Reveal Hidden Diversity in Nigeria’s Avocado Genebank
Using ISSR and SCoT DNA markers, Nigerian researchers have mapped moderate genetic diversity across fifteen avocado accessions from the NIHORT...
UV Light on One Leaf Triggers Plant-Wide Antioxidant Defenses in Tobacco
Hungarian researchers show that irradiating a single tobacco leaf with low-dose UV triggers peroxidase and phenolic antioxidant defenses in unexposed...
Water-Saving Irrigation and Hydrochar Reshape Carbon Storage in Paddy Soil Clumps
A controlled experiment shows that switching flooded rice paddies to water-saving irrigation and amending soil with straw-derived hydrochar shifts the...
Farming soils breathe faster than forests in Northeast India, deep-profile study finds
A depth-resolved study in Tripura, Northeast India, shows that land-use type, not soil depth, is the dominant driver of soil...
Wild Peanut Relatives in Brazil’s Drylands Harbor Nitrogen-Fixing Bacteria That Could Supercharge Crops
Researchers isolated diverse Bradyrhizobium strains from wild peanut relatives in the Brazilian Drylands and found that one strain, ESA 584,...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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