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...
by nick | Feb 15, 2017 | Agricultural Science, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Life Sciences & Biology
Professor Joyce Van Eck – Improving Crops By Genetic Engineering And Targeted Genome Editing Located at the Boyce Thompson Institute, an independent affiliate of Cornell University, the Van Eck lab explores novel methods for major crop improvement possibilities...
by nick | Feb 14, 2017 | Agricultural Science, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Life Sciences & Biology
Dr Corina Vlot-Schuster – The Seeds We Sow And The Grain We Reap Much of the world’s population is dependent on just a few crops, with blight and disease an ever-present threat. Dr Corina Vlot-Schuster of the Helmholtz Centre Munich, after many years researching...
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