. Scientific Frontline: Agricultural Science
Showing posts with label Agricultural Science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Agricultural Science. Show all posts
Friday, April 10, 2026

Artificial intelligence and drones to select the most resilient wheat

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Photo Credit:  Beth Macdonald Scientific Frontline: "At a Glance" Summary : Durum Wheat Resilience and Climate Adaptation Main Dis...
Thursday, April 2, 2026

Watering smarter, not more

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Robot assisting with precision irrigation in an orchard. Photo Credit: Elia Scudiero / University of California, Riverside Scientific Frontl...
Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Building a Better Blueprint: New “Pangenome” Tool to Help Scientists Future-Proof Sorghum

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Ripe sorghum plant field, at Santa Ana, El Salvador Photo Credit:  Luis Rodriguez Scientific Frontline: Extended "At a Glance" Sum...
Monday, March 30, 2026

‘Toad-proofing’ farms could help stop the march of invasive pest

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Toad at a leaking water point. Photo Credit: Ben Phillips Scientific Frontline: Extended "At a Glance" Summary : Toad-Proofing Agr...

Ural Bacteria Will Help Wheat Survive on Devastated Lands

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The work of UrFU biologists will help plants adapt to stressful conditions. Photo Credit: Stepan Dolgov Scientific Frontline: Extended ...
Saturday, March 28, 2026

Agroseismology: In-Depth Description

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Agroseismology is an emerging interdisciplinary scientific field that applies seismological techniques and geophysical monitoring tools to a...
Wednesday, March 25, 2026

Succulents as Role Models: Deciphering the Mechanisms of Drought-Resistant Plants

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The newly established succulent model plant Kalanchoë laxiflora in full bloom. The fleshy leaves enable water storage and a special, extreme...

Stolen chloroplasts maintained by host-made proteins offer clues to plant cell origins

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Host-made proteins help maintain the stolen chloroplast in Rapaza viridis The arrow indicates a chloroplast stolen from algal prey (a klepto...
Tuesday, March 24, 2026

How to make species-poor meadows more colorful

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After restoration, the meadow is dotted with daisies and knapweeds. Photo Credit: © Yasemin Kurtogullari Scientific Frontline: Extended ...
Monday, March 23, 2026

New UBC tool may help stop a destructive insect in its tracks

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Preserved moths. Photo Credit: UBC Scientific Frontline: Extended "At a Glance" Summary : SpongySeq Genomic Tool The Core Concept ...

Native plants deployed by volunteer scientists in fight against buckthorn

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Wildrye is a plant used to suppress buckthorn throughout much of Minnesota. Photo Credit: Mike Schuster. Scientific Frontline: Extended ...

International Team of Scientists Developed an Ecological Dryer for "Northern" Summer

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Experiments have shown that the dehumidifier accumulates heat in just 140 minutes of a sunny day, and then gives it away for almost 24 hours...

Fungi used in pest control: Traveling across fungal genomes in “spaceships”

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The southern cattle tick (Rhipicephalus microplus) transmits various diseases and can cause significant economic damage to livestock through...
Thursday, March 19, 2026

Earthquake scientists reveal how overplowing weakens soil at experimental farm

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A plot of experimental land at Joe Collins’ Field near Harper Adams University, where University of Washington researchers travelled to coll...
Thursday, March 5, 2026

How fires, storms, and bark beetles will shape the future of Europe’s forests

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Forests in southern and western Europe are especially at risk, while the economic, climatic and ecological impacts extend far beyond regiona...
Wednesday, March 4, 2026

Nitrous oxide, a product of fertilizer use, may harm some soil bacteria

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Nitrous oxide (orange and green molecules) produced at the plant root may harm certain soil bacteria, according to a new study — revealing a...
Tuesday, March 3, 2026

Ancient symbiosis between plants and fungi: important insights for sustainable agriculture

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Long-term experiment on nutrient deficiency in grassland at the Raumberg-Gumpenstein Agricultural Research Station in Admont. Grassland area...
Wednesday, February 18, 2026

Moving biopesticides through plants opens new opportunities

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Dr Chris Brosnan and Dr Don Gardinar in the QAAFI laboratory. Photo Credit: Megan Pope Scientific Frontline: "At a Glance" Summary...
Tuesday, February 17, 2026

Eco friendly spruce bark can replace toxic chemicals

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Maria Hedberg, staff scientist at the Department of Odontology at Umeå University, has seen how spruce bark can keep microbes in check. Phot...
Saturday, February 14, 2026

Hidden insect diversity in grass shoots threatened by mowing

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Two female parasitoid wasps depositing their eggs in the larvae of the gall midge hidden in a reed shoot. The tiny gall midge larvae feed wi...