Agricultural and Forestry Science

Modifying Rice Crops to Resist Herbicide Prompts Weedy Neighbors’ Growth Spurt

Rice containing an overactive gene that makes it resistant to a common herbicide can pass that genetic trait to weedy rice, prompting powerful growth even…

New role for protein family could provide path to how crop traits are modified

The protein, called translation initiation factor 3, or IF3, is one of three proteins that make up the core structure of the machinery needed to guide the…

Bringing precision farming to open field crops

How much water and fertilizer needs agricultural land for a successful harvest? Which nutrients are in the soil, which ones are lacking? ttz Bremerhaven and…

Wetlands more cost-effective in nutrient removal, but multiple payments would be of uncertain value

“In the areas we studied in Bureau County with small wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), it was much cheaper to do pollution control by installing just a few…

Urban agriculture: The potential and challenges of producing food in cities

“You can't find fresher food anywhere,” says Sam Wortman, assistant professor at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. “Chefs are literally picking…

Tropical forests 'fix' themselves

Tropical forests speed their own recovery, capturing nitrogen and carbon faster after being logged or cleared for agriculture.Researchers working at the…

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