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New algorithm uses satellite images to distinguish olive grove types without field visits
A study by the universities of Cordoba and Seville develops a method that makes it possible to verify, easily and quickly, whether an olive plantation is traditional, intensive, or super-intensive.
Biotechnology
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Research details pathology, progression, management of large patch disease
With spring rains, warm-season turfgrasses such as bermudagrass and zoysiagrass are at risk of a fungal disease called large patch that can leave a lawn marked with large brown areas of dead and dying grass.
Plants & Animals
Jun 5, 2025
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Fungal resistance in wheat: Preserving biodiversity for food security
Wheat production is threatened by a major fungal disease: yellow rust. Researchers at the University of Zurich have found traditional wheat varieties from Asia that harbor several resistance-conferring genes. They may serve ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Jun 5, 2025
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Biotech uses fermentation to produce milk proteins without cows
With finite natural resources and a growing demand for food, the world must find ways to overcome this challenge. One proposal comes from a Brazilian startup that will produce milk proteins without the need for cows.
Biotechnology
Jun 4, 2025
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Bee truck crashes pose steep economic losses for beekeepers, says expert
When a semi-truck carrying hundreds of honey bee colonies crashed and overturned in Washington state last week, it wasn't just a roadside mess—it was a potentially devastating economic blow to the beekeeping operation behind ...
Agriculture
Jun 4, 2025
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First genetic 'toggle switch' for plants paves the way for smarter farming
Researchers at Colorado State University have developed a tool that can be used to switch a plant's key genetic traits on or off at will. The breakthrough was recently published in ACS Synthetic Biology and represents the ...
Biotechnology
Jun 4, 2025
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Weed infestations impact row crop production
The 2025 growing season is in full swing, and weed control remains a top concern for row crop producers. Experts at the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture are continuing to provide research-based recommendations ...
Agriculture
Jun 4, 2025
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A three-way interaction that hatches potato parasites
Potatoes produce a molecule that is converted by microbes and causes potato parasites to hatch. The Kobe University discovery of this three-way relationship not only adds a new perspective to how plants interact with their ...
Ecology
Jun 4, 2025
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'Resurrection' millet—a plant that revives after severe drought
A new discovery by scientists could help protect crop production and reduce plant mortality due to drought, which accounts for a quarter of U.S. crop production losses.
Ecology
Jun 4, 2025
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Student-community partnership grows African leafy vegetables in Minnesota
Access to African crops is important to the large African community in Minnesota, but growing these vegetables can be challenging due to poor adaptation to the climate and limited seed availability. To address this, University ...
Agriculture
Jun 3, 2025
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Biodiversity allows for sustainable fisheries and better nutrition
To satisfy the seafood needs of billions of people, offering them access to a more biodiverse array of fish creates opportunities to mix-and-match species to obtain better nutrition from smaller portions of fish.
Ecology
Jun 3, 2025
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Artificial insemination a win for Zimbabwe's farmers
Zimbabwean farmer Freedom Sibanda used to sell his goats for US$30 each. Now, through crossbreeding techniques, one goat can fetch up to US$60 at market.
Agriculture
Jun 2, 2025
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Imported ladybird beetles save Grenada's ice cream fruit
When Laurel Williams thinks of soursop, she thinks of ice cream. Not just any ice cream, but the one made from the soursop she grows on her farm in Grenada, a small island nation in the Caribbean Sea.
Ecology
Jun 2, 2025
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How seaweed is a powerful, yet surprising, climate solution
Picture a place at the center of a global seaweed revolution. I'll bet the small English seaside town of Paignton in south Devon is not what comes to mind. A decade ago, I moved from the edge of Dartmoor to the coast. It ...
Ecology
Jun 2, 2025
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Plant disease resistance protein unexpectedly accelerates aging in lab study
Resistance to disease should mean a longer life, but researchers have found that a mutant protein that helps a plant fight mildew might make it age sooner.
Cell & Microbiology
May 30, 2025
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Atomic-level view of plant cell death enzyme offers path to safer crop protection
In a discovery three decades in the making, scientists at Rutgers and Brookhaven National Laboratory have acquired detailed knowledge about the internal structures and mode of regulation for a specialized protein and are ...
Plants & Animals
May 30, 2025
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The EU should allow gene editing to make organic farming more sustainable, researchers say
To achieve the European Green Deal's goal of 25% organic agriculture by 2030, researchers argue that new genomic techniques (NGTs) should be allowed without pre-market authorization in organic as well as conventional food ...
Biotechnology
May 30, 2025
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Researchers identify new pathway of resistance to one of the three insect-repelling proteins used in Bt cotton
Nearly 30 years ago, Australia's first genetically modified field crop was planted: Bt cotton.
Molecular & Computational biology
May 30, 2025
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Cotton virus circulated undetected for nearly 20 years, study finds
A virus responsible for damaging cotton crops across the southern United States has been lurking in U.S. fields for nearly 20 years—undetected. According to new research, cotton leafroll dwarf virus (CLRDV), long believed ...
Molecular & Computational biology
May 29, 2025
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Cannabis pangenome reveals potential for medicinal and industrial use
Cannabis has been a globally important crop for millennia. While best known today as marijuana for its psychoactive cannabinoid THC (tetrahydrocannabinol), historically, cannabis has been a cornerstone of human civilization, ...
Molecular & Computational biology
May 29, 2025
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