Agricultural and Forestry Science

Forest Fungus Factory

So far, only extreme cold stops the hemlock woolly adelgid. But the University of Vermont’s Scott Costa may soon give forest managers and homeowners a tool to…

Team shows how the honey bee tolerates some synthetic pesticides

The findings appear in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.Previous studies have shown that honey bee hives are contaminated with an array of…

Research Finds Link Between Increased Crops and Deforestation in Amazon, but Issue Not So Cut and Dry

Although this cause-and-effect finding seems fairly straightforward, the issue of deforestation in the Amazon is more complex and more devastating than…

Wood Products Part of Winning Carbon-Emissions Equation

But rather than just letting the forest sit there for a hundred or more years, the amount of carbon dioxide taken out of the atmosphere could be quadrupled in…

Researchers Study Pesticide Pathways into the Atmosphere

Agricultural Research Service (ARS) soil scientist Timothy Gish and ARS micrometeorologist John Prueger led the investigation, which looked at the field…

New Genetic Map of Potato May Lead to Improved Crops

By sequencing and identifying genes in the genome of the potato, the consortium has, for the first time, tied specific potato genes to their functions….

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