Agricultural and Forestry Science

UW Plant Breeders Develop an Even Heart-Healthier Oat

“The biggest thing that stands out about this new variety, BetaGene, is that it’s both a high yielding variety and high in beta glucan. Beta glucan is a…

Listening to Chickens Could Improve Poultry Production

Researchers now believe that such avian expressiveness may be more than idle chatter. A collaborative project being conducted by the Georgia Institute of…

Increasing predator-friendly land can help farmers reduce costs

Ladybugs and other predatory insects eat crop pests, saving farmers an estimated $4.6 billion a year on insecticides. Non-crop plants provide these predatory…

Legume Lessons: Reducing Fertilizer Use Through Beneficial Microbe Reactions

Sherrier leads one of four research groups participating in this project, which represents a collaborative effort between researchers at the Noble Foundation,…

Agricultural bacteria: Blowing in the wind

Using a powerful DNA sequencing technique, called pyrosequencing, a team led by USDA-ARS scientists Terrence Gardner and Veronica Acosta-Martínez analyzed the…

Beetle-fungus disease threatens crops and landscape trees in Southern California

A plant pathologist at the University of California, Riverside has identified a fungus that has been linked to the branch dieback and general decline of…

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