Agriculture

Credit: University of Cordoba Spain boasts the largest cultivated area of almond trees in the world, with more than 700,000 ha (MAPA, 2018), but ranks third in terms of production. How can this be? Actually it's easy to explain:…

Credit: Diverfarming Many consumers are willing to pay for improved environmental quality and thus non-market values of impacts of food production on e.g. water quality, C sequestration, biodiversity, pollution, erosion or GHG…

Credit: Oregon State University CORVALLIS, Ore. - A new study by Oregon State University researchers found that shade provided by solar panels increased the abundance of flowers under the panels and delayed the timing of…

Lessons from COVID crisis for reducing inequities and enhancing resilience of food systems April 13th, 2021, Washington, D.C. - The severe health and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have disrupted food systems and upended…

Growing more legumes, like beans and lentils, is potentially a more sustainable and nutritious approach to European agriculture, shows a new study in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. This study presents some of the first holistic…

Researchers use satellite imagery to track interactions between cows and elk at the interface of wildland and rangeland Cows don't seem to have a whole lot going on most of the time. They're raised to spend their days grazing in the field,…

Credit: Janice Brahney/S.J. & Jessie E. Quinney College of Natural Resources at Utah State University. Really big systems, like ocean currents and weather, work on really big scales. And so too does your plastic waste,…

Credit: Estonian University of Life Sciences The detrimental impact of pesticides on non-target organisms is one of the most urgent concerns in current agriculture. Double-stranded RNAs (dsRNAs) represent the most species-specific…

Credit: NIGPAS While pollinators such as bees and butterflies provide crucial ecosystem services today, little is known about the origin of the intimate association between flowering plants and insects. Now, a new amber…

What The Study Did: Changes in quality of diet from different sources of food among U.S. children and adults from 2003 to 2018 were examined in this survey study. Authors: Junxiu Liu, Ph.D., of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount…

Credit: Xingang Wang/Lippman lab, CSHL/2021 Both people and tomatoes come in different shapes and sizes. That is because every individual has a unique set of genetic variations--mutations--that affect how genes act and function.…

Media advisory Preprints - Accelerating plant sciences and agriculture When? 29 April 2021, 3pm British Summer Time (BST) Live webinar, sign up to the event here:…

A biosensor visualizes redistribution dynamics of the plant hormone auxin in living cellsCredit: S. Shanmugaratnam, A.C. Stiel, M. Kolb A team of scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen and the…

A new study by a University of Copenhagen researcher finds that thawing permafrost in Alaska causes colder water in smaller rivers and streams. GEOGRAFI A new study by a University of Copenhagen researcher finds that thawing permafrost…

Credit: David Aldridge Moving endangered species to new locations is often used as part of species conservation strategies, and can help to restore degraded ecosystems. But scientists say there is a high risk that these relocations are…

Researchers have found common foxgloves brought to the Americas have rapidly evolved to change flower length in the presence of a new pollinator group, hummingbirds. The findings are published in the British Ecological Society's Journal…

Credit: University of Cordoba A team from the Department of Agronomy at the UCO has demonstrated, through field tests carried out during 8 agricultural seasons, that foliar feeding with fertilizer increases the concentration of…

MSU's expertise in fish biology, genetics helping researchers rewrite evolutionary history and shape future health studiesCredit: Reprinted with permission from R.J. Vigouroux et al. Science 372:eabe7790 (2021) The network of nerves…

Credit: USDA Forest Service MADISON, WI, April 8, 2021 - USDA Forest Service scientists have delivered a new comprehensive assessment of the invasive species that confront America's forests and grasslands, from new arrivals to some…

New study may in the long term lead to new varieties that require less fertilizerCredit: © Barbara Frommann/University of Bonn Every third-grader knows that plants absorb nutrients from the soil through their roots. The fact that they…