Agricultural and Forestry Science

Plant doctors get to the root of plant stress in rice

Sitting in an air-conditioned office at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center at Beaumont, it's obvious: People work better indoors when…

Riding a horse is far more complex than riding simulators

Flight simulators for the training of air pilots are well known. But what about riding simulators? Although the first horse simulator was used at the French…

Tropical deforestation releases large amounts of soil carbon

Deforestation of natural tropical forests for the establishment of oil palm, rubber and cacao plantations causes large amounts of carbon to be released into…

Drivers of temporal changes in temperate forest plant diversity

Climate change, environmental pollution or land use changes – there are numerous influences threatening biodiversity in forests around the globe. The resulting…

Gut Microbes Enable Coffee Pest to Withstand Extremely Toxic Concentrations of Caffeine

The coffee berry borer is the most devastating coffee pest in the world. The tiny beetle is found in most regions where coffee is cultivated, and a big…

Farming is driving force drying soil in Northern China

A research team led by Purdue University and China Agricultural University analyzed soil moisture during the growing season in Northern China and found that it…

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