Agricultural and Forestry Science

Heat stress impairs intestinal barrier in dairy cows

For the first time, scientists from the Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology Dummerstorf (FBN) were able to prove that high ambient temperatures in dairy…

Launch of research project: The future of agriculture is digital

Global agriculture is facing major challenges. The world’s population is growing – to over nine billion people by 2050. While available farmland is declining…

Back to Nature: Palm oil plantations are being turned back into protected rainforest

Scientists in collaboration with Borneo‘s forestry authorities want to turn palm oil plantations into rainforests. Lessons learned from this project can then…

The inner struggle of the evening primrose: Chloroplasts are caught up in an evolutionary arms race

Inheritance is a complex issue. Which genes came from the mother and which were inherited from the father? It is certain that mother and father each inherit 50…

Cereals use chemical defenses in a multifunctional manner against different herbivores

A team of scientists from the University of Bern (Switzerland) and the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology and their partners have characterized multiple…

Can rice filter water from ag fields?

Rice is a staple food crop of 20 percent of the world's population. It's also grown on every continent except Antarctica.

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