. Scientific Frontline: Agricultural Science
Showing posts with label Agricultural Science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Agricultural Science. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 4, 2026

New Line of Bovine Embryonic Stem Cells Shows Promise for Lab-Grown Meat, Biomedical Applications

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Cindy Tian of the Department of Animal Science in the College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources works in her lab in the Agricultu...
Monday, February 2, 2026

Removing livestock from grasslands could compromise long-term soil carbon storage

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Langdale, England. Photo Credit: Richard Bardgett Scientific Frontline: "At a Glance" Summary Main Discovery : Total removal of li...
Saturday, January 31, 2026

Agricultural Science: In-Depth Description

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Agricultural Science is a broad, multidisciplinary field of biology that encompasses the parts of exact, natural, economic, and social scien...
Wednesday, January 28, 2026

Pesticides Significantly Affect Soil Life and Biodiversity

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70 percent of European soils are contaminated with pesticides with a major impact on various beneficial soil organisms, such as mycorrhizal ...

Forest soils increasingly extract methane from atmosphere

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The data on methane uptake comes from soils in beech and spruce forests, like the typical Central European beech forest shown here. Photo Cr...
Monday, January 26, 2026

Manganese Helps Reduce Agricultural Nitrogen Pollution in Air, Water

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Photo Credit:  Dylan de Jonge Scientific Frontline: "At a Glance" Summary Main Discovery : The addition of manganese to agricultur...
Saturday, January 17, 2026

What Is: Invasive Species

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Image Credit: Scientific Frontline / stock image Scientific Frontline: Extended "At a Glance" Summary The Core Concept : Invasive ...
Thursday, January 15, 2026

Long-term pesticide exposure accelerates aging and shortens lifespan in fish

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Notre Dame biologist Jason Rohr Photo Credit: Barbara Johnston/University of Notre Dame Scientific Frontline: "At a Glance" Summar...
Wednesday, January 7, 2026

Ticking time bomb: Some farmers report as many as 70 tick encounters over a 6-month period

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Some outdoor workers reported as many as 70 tick encounters over a 6-month period, according to new research led by Binghamton's Tick-bo...
Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Sublethal antibiotic levels found to boost spread of resistance genes in the environment by up to 45 times

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Photo Credit:  Daniel Quiceno M A new study has found that exposure to sublethal levels of antibiotics, amounts too low to kill bacteria, ca...
Tuesday, April 2, 2024

Research Finds Dairy Farmers Receptive to Methane-Reducing Seaweed Feed

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New research led by the University of New Hampshire examines the receptiveness of organic dairy farmers across Maine to pay an average of 64...
Thursday, March 21, 2024

Product that kills agricultural pests also deadly to native Pacific Northwest snail

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Pacific sideband snail. Photo Credit: William P. Leonard A product used to control pest slugs on farms in multiple countries is deadly to le...
Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Invasive weed could be turned into a viable economic crop

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Prof Rahman and Dr Karim collecting paddy melons for urease enzyme extraction. Photo Credit: Courtesy of University of South Australia One o...
Wednesday, February 14, 2024

Red nets signal “stop” to insect pests, reduce need for insecticides

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Field test in Kyoto, Japan. The type of Welsh onions used in the experiment were a variety called Kujo leek, or Kujo negi in Japanese. These...
Wednesday, December 27, 2023

Electronic “soil” enhances crop growth

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Alexandra Sandéhn, PhD student, one of the lead authors, and Eleni Stavrinidou, Associate Professor, and supervisor of the study, connect th...
Wednesday, December 20, 2023

Research offers a reason why diversity in plant species causes higher farming yield, solving 'a bit of a mystery'

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Co-author Peggy Schultz collects data on plots with undergraduate workers. Photo Credit: KU Marketing A study appearing in Nature Communicat...
Monday, October 30, 2023

New strategies needed to help banana farmers recover from climate shocks

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Photo Credit:  Jonas Von Werne Extreme weather events and the globalized nature of food production puts smallholder farmers at risk of ‘doub...
Thursday, October 19, 2023

Cut emissions and improve farming to protect wilderness

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Photo Credit:  Dave Willhite Humanity must cut carbon emissions and use farmland more efficiently to protect our planet’s remaining wilderne...
Wednesday, October 11, 2023

Land use: produce more food and store more carbon at the same time

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Optimized land use could still significantly increase yields taking climatic conditions into account, keeping land use within limits. Photo ...
Friday, September 29, 2023

Soil bacteria prevail despite drought conditions

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ClimGrass, the field experiment in Styria, in which drought is simulated in combination with future climate conditions. Photo Credit: Markus...