by Iliyah | Jun 28, 2017 | Agricultural Science, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Life Sciences & Biology
Mark Hoddle – Biological Control: Protecting Agriculture and Wilderness Areas from Invasive Insect Pests Invasive organisms become pests, in part, because they escape control of their natural enemies that regulate population growth in areas where the invader is...
by Iliyah | Jun 21, 2017 | Agricultural Science, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Life Sciences & Biology
Dr Guihua Bai – Genotyping our Daily Bread: Genetic Markers in Modern Wheat Breeding Wheat is a staple crop, and is of utmost importance for global food supply. Dr Guihua Bai and his group at USDA-ARS conduct wheat genomics research to analyse wheat DNA markers,...
by Iliyah | May 17, 2017 | Agricultural Science, Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences, Earth & Environmental Sciences
Professor Peggy Petrzelka – Solutions to Modern Challenges in Gender, Agriculture and Conservation In recent decades, farmland in the United States is increasingly cultivated by operators that rent the land, rather than the land owner. This shift holds major...
by Iliyah | May 7, 2017 | Agricultural Science, Earth & Environmental Sciences
Dr Wade H Elmer – Improving Plant Disease Resistance: Can Nanoparticles Deliver? Crop disease can have an enormous impact on farming productivity and profits. A plant’s resistance to disease has been previously linked to micronutrients, which control key...
by Iliyah | May 1, 2017 | Agricultural Science, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Life Sciences & Biology
Dr Leonard Bryan Coop – Cloudy, With A Chance Of Insects The Integrated Plant Protection Center at Oregon State University is both a hub for research into agricultural pest management and the host of widelyused pest forecasting tools. Dr Leonard Coop and his...
by nick | Feb 21, 2017 | Agricultural Science, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Life Sciences & Biology
The U.S. Department Of Agriculture’s National Institute Of Food And Agriculture An exclusive interview with Dr Sonny Ramaswamy, the director of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) As one of 18 agencies within the United States Department of...
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