crop research
Tepary bean genome may lead to sustainable alternatives for legume crops affected by changing climate
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Insights into the microbiome may help researchers grow more resilient citrus plants that can handle both changing climates and stress from pathogens
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This most damaging soybean pathogen was first found in the US in 1954 and most recent estimates show that it results in $1.5 billion in annual yield losses
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"This discovery has implications for food security and breeding new crop lines that can better deal with a changing climate," researcher says
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Bringing a technique that has been a boon to other plants to the budding cannabis industry
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Researchers say plants' internal clock should be exploited in agriculture—a process they describe as "chronoculture"—to contribute to global food security
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Researchers found that the El Niño climate cycle can be a reliable substitute for weather data
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Scientists from China assembled a high-quality genome of Chinese hazelnut and were able to identify several genes of economic importance
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Overuse of antibiotics in humans has led to several microbes developing antibiotic resistance; researchers explore if this is also true of antibiotics used on crops
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Study results suggest Ethiopia—Africa's largest coffee producing nation—may produce less specialty coffee and more bland-tasting varieties in the future
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