Agricultural and Forestry Science

Antibiotic-Resistant Pathogens Persist in Antibiotic-Free Pigs

Dr. Siddhartha Thakur, assistant professor of population health and pathobiology, had previously found that antibiotic-resistant C. coli, a leading cause of…

Feeding microbials to chickens leads to mysterious immune response

Researchers at the North Carolina State University and Chung Jen College of Nursing, Health Sciences and Management (Taiwan) conducted a study to investigate…

Discovery may help protect crops from stressors

Scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have discovered a key genetic switch by which plants control their response to ethylene gas, a natural…

Scientist takes on malaria-like sickness in horses

It was the King Ranch, legendary for its world-class quarter horses, including former winners of the Triple Crown and Kentucky Derby. The 825,000 acre…

Controlling gait of horses may be possible, says key study from Texas A&M

In domestic horses, the mutation has had a major impact on their diversification, as the altered gait characteristics of a number of breeds apparently require…

Study offers new hope for increasing global food production, reducing environmental impact of agriculture

Can we have enough to eat and a healthy environment, too? Yes—if we’re smart about it, suggests a study published in Nature this week by a team of researchers…

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