MilKey: New Technology To Help Dairy Farmers Raise Healthy Cows
Startup company has developed an optical milk scanner based on materials-sensing technology that dairy farmers can use to measure the health of their cows. Around…
Agriculture
Stanford Scientists Unlock Mysteries of Plant Growth and Health
The discovery will help develop heat-tolerant crops and improve algal biofuel production Plants, like all other known organisms, utilize DNA to pass on traits. Animal…
Tapping Icebergs, Fogs and Other “Unconventional Water Sources” Can Help Meet Global Freshwater Needs
Experts detail the abundance of diverse “unconventional water sources.” Tapping a fraction can help meet fast-growing global freshwater needs. UN and partner water experts say…
Scientists Create Tomatoes Genetically Engineered To Boost Vitamin D
Tomatoes that have been gene-edited to produce vitamin D, known as the sunshine vitamin, could be a simple and sustainable innovation to address a worldwide…
How To Avoid Eating the World: From Degrowth to a Sustainable Food System Transformation
“Just shrinking the size of our current food system won’t cut emissions much. Instead, we need to transform the very nature of that global food…
Higher Quality Wheat: Increased Yields and Up to 25% More Protein Content
An international team of scientists has discovered a way to produce higher quality wheat. The researchers from the University of Adelaide and the UK’s John…
Structure of “Gliding Bird” Plant Defense Protein Could Lead to Better Crops
Biologist Xinnian Dong says her “best Christmas gift ever” arrived in the form of a phone call. The call was from her longtime friend and…
Extremophytes: “Extreme” Plants Grow Faster in the Face of Stress
When plants are faced with conditions that are too dry, salty, or cold, most of them try to conserve resources. They send out fewer leaves…
“Microbial Protein” – Fungi-Based Meat Alternatives Can Help Save Earth’s Forests
Substituting 20% of meat from cattle with microbial protein — a meat alternative produced in fermentation tanks — by 2050 could halve deforestation, a new…
Increased Risks to Corn Crops and Society From Clusters of Weather Extremes
To assess how climate warming will change risks such as crop failures and wildfires, it’s necessary to look at how the risks are likely to…
Scientists Discover Protein in Fungus That Allows It To Bypass Plant Defenses
A protein that permits the fungus that causes white mold stem rot in over 600 plant species to overcome plant defenses has been identified by…
Varroa-Resistant Honey Bees Are More Than Twice As Likely To Survive the Winter
An USDA Agricultural Research Service-developed line of bees that naturally has low levels of Varroa mites is more than twice as likely to survive the…
US Bird Flu Outbreak Is Killing Millions of Chickens and Turkeys
An outbreak of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in chicken and turkey flocks has spread across 24 U.S. states since it was first detected in Indiana…
NASA Researchers Untangle Puzzling Patterns of Sinking and Rising Land To Monitor Underground Water Loss
Researchers have untangled puzzling patterns of sinking and rising land to pin down the underground locations where water is being pumped for irrigation. Scientists have…
New Breed of Honey Bees a Major Advance in Global Fight Against Parasitic Varroa Mite
Selective breeding sustainably protects honey bees from Varroa mite. A new breed of honey bees provides a major advance in the global fight against the…
For Plant Geneticists Looking To Improve Crop Yields, Some Genes Are Double the Trouble
When plant geneticists find a gene that improves crop yields, they want to try to insert that same change into other crops. But Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory…
Relocating Farmland Could Increase Biodiversity and Turn Back Clock 20 Years on Carbon Emissions
Scientists have produced a map showing where the world’s major food crops should be grown to maximize yield and minimize environmental impact. This would capture…
Agricultural Research Shows Global Cropland Could Almost Be Cut in Half
In the context of trade-offs between land use and biodiversity, LMU geographers have simulated land saving potentials for agriculture. With rising global demand for agricultural…
