Agricultural and Forestry Science

Molecular technique advances soybean rust resistance research

Hartman and his team of researchers successfully used quantitative polymerase chain reaction (Q-PCR) assays to assess fungal DNA in soybean leaf tissue to…

New Strategy Aims to Reduce Agricultural Ammonia Emissions

In the May-June 2011 issue of the Journal of Environmental Quality, a team led by Mark Powell, a soil scientist with the USDA Agricultural Research Service’s…

Foot and mouth disease may spread through shedding skin cells

In a new paper appearing in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientist Michael Dillon proposed that…

High-tech approach uses lights, action and camera to scrutinize fresh produce

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists in Beltsville, Md., have developed and patented an experimental, cutting-edge optical scanning system that…

USDA researchers, collaborators sequence genomes of fungi that threaten wheat, poplars

The sequencing of the genetic codes of wheat stem rust pathogen (Puccinia graminis) and poplar leaf rust pathogen (Melampsora larici-populina) is expected to…

Study Probes Sources of Mississippi River Phosphorus

But according to new modeling research that examined phosphorus loading from all 1768 counties in the Mississippi River Basin (MRB), the true causes aren’t…

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