Agricultural and Forestry Science

Groundwater Depletion in Semiarid Regions of Texas and California Threatens U.S. Food Security

The study, which appears in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, paints the highest resolution picture yet of how groundwater depletion…

Good soil, good harvest

No rain at all or rainfall which significantly fluctuates is a major problem for farmers, since long periods of drought increase the risk of a poor harvest and…

Commonly used pesticide turns honey bees into 'picky eaters'

The results of their experiments, detailed in this week's issue of the Journal of Experimental Biology, have implications for what pesticides should be applied…

Blossom end rot plummets in Purdue-developed transgenic tomato

In the early 1990s, horticulture professor Avtar Handa developed a transgenic tomato with a thicker juice that yields 10 percent more tomato paste than…

Southern pine beetle impacts on forest ecosystems

Research by USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station (SRS) scientists shows that the impacts of recent outbreaks of southern pine beetle further degraded…

Forest diversity from Canada to the sub-tropics influenced by family proximity

How species diversity is maintained is a fundamental question in biology. In a new study, a team of Indiana University biologists has shown for the first time…

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