Deceiving Mice With Scent: Is Olfactory Misinformation the Solution to Crop Infestation?

Medicine & Technology May 23, 2023

A new method was developed by scientists to reduce crop infestation by deceiving mice with scent camouflage, providing simple and more humane agricultural solution. Read the article to find out more.

Plowing and Tilling Slopes Cause Thinning of Soils and Jeopardizes Crop Yields, Study Claims

Jul 06, 2022

Researcher found that plowing and tilling on hilly farm slopes jeopardizes crop yields in the future. Continue reading for more details about the future of farming.

New Mexico Chile Cultivated, Grown on ISS Harvested for the First Time; NASA Says It's the Longest Plant Experiment in Space

Oct 30, 2021

New Mexico chile has been growing on the International Space Station and now, astronauts get to try it after its first harvest. Horticultural scientist from Espanola Jacob Torres is playing a vital role in this project in partnership with NASA.

Creating an Excellent Blueberry Crop Requires Bees

Jun 18, 2019

Among all of these bees, only the southeastern blueberry bee and the honey bee significantly increased fruit set

Scientists Discover the Key to Increasing Crop Yields

Jun 13, 2019

A recent discovery from the plant scientists reveals a gene that might be able to widen a nutrient trafficking bottleneck, which has the potential to increase crop yields.

Plant Scientists Discover Gene that Can Potentially Increase Crop Yields

Jun 11, 2019

Researchers have brought this goal a step closer by finding Phloem Unloading Modulator (PLM), a new gene that affects nutrient trafficking by altering the channels connecting neighboring plant cells called plasmodesmata

Heat Will Drive Lower Crop Yields, Not Drought

Jun 03, 2019

Researchers forecasted the enormous losses for maize and spring wheat, but more resilient crops such as sorghum, which is half as sensitive to high temperature as maize, will experience less damage

Armyworm Caterpillar Invasion: Crop-Killing Bugs Reaches Kenya After Uganda

Apr 23, 2017

An estimated cost of $193 million was inflicted by the armyworms in Uganda, now it is seen pestering Rwanda, Kenya.

Armyworm Caterpillar Invasion: Crop-Killing Bugs Reaches Kenya After Uganda

Apr 23, 2017

An estimated cost of $193 million was inflicted by the armyworms in Uganda, now it is seen pestering Rwanda, Kenya.

DNA Evidence of Wheat Upsets Archeological History of the Crop in Early England

Feb 27, 2015

When British researchers went diving in Bouldnor Cliff, a submarine archaeological site near the Isle of Wight in the UK, it would fit to assume that they hadn’t quite banked on finding evidence of wheat beneath the waters. But when the researcher analyzed a core sample obtained from sealed sediments, microfossils with sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNA) of wheat species revealed that there might be far more to the story of the cash crop and trade in ancient Britain—perhaps even 2,000 years more than what the current history predicts.