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It will be possible to preserve and increase soil fertility with the help of weather forecasting. For this purpose, an international team of researchers from the REC "Greater Altai" of Altai State ...

Breeders and agricultural scientists are confident that Russia will cope with the shortage of seeds on its own. And the current situation with world currencies and sanctions can only play into the ...

Samara scientists and special farms contribute to the doctrine of food security. An integrated seed production system has been created and a new variety of potatoes has been bred, according to the ...

Instead of chemical additives this year, science is using river algae as fertilizer. For twenty years of work, scientists of the institute have developed and patented three varieties of potatoes - "Kolymsky", ...

Scientists of the Crimean Federal University will start sowing crops from the so-called "borscht set", including several varieties of peppers, tomatoes, as well as eggplants and spices. Almost all of their seeds ...

A garden harvest is approaching in the Murmansk region - it will begin in June. In its light, it is interesting to pay attention to the Polar Experimental Station of the N.I. ...

Scientists at the University of Agriculture Faisalabad (UAF) in Pakistan have found that dried potato powder can successfully be used as a cheaper energy source in animal feed and can be added up to 30 percent ...

A specialized UMaine research team will receive more than USD446,800 to use hyperspectral methods for studying the Potato Virus Y (PVY) which generates severe losses in crop yield. The research hub is ...

Thanks to a team from the faculty of bio-engineering sciences at Ghent University that has developed a vaccine, potato blight could be prevented. The vaccine works like any other, according to Brussels ...

The infamous pathogen Phytophthora infestans caused famine in Ireland and other parts of Western Europe in the 19th century and continues to pose a major threat to our food production worldwide. For ...

China's scientists have developed a generation of "pure and fertile potato lines" with genome editing technologies in a groundbreaking achievement.

Chinese scientists have developed a generation of “pure and fertile potato lines” with genome editing technologies in a groundbreaking achievement. The experiment, led by Huang Sanwen, a researcher with the Agricultural Genomics ...

A new University of Illinois-led study identifies obstacles and solutions to improve performance and adoption of irrigation decision support tools at the field scale. Where some fields are equipped with soil moisure ...

The Supporters of Agricultural Research (SoAR) Foundation released Developing Global Priorities for Plant Research: Adapting Agriculture to Climate Variability, today. With support from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Institute of Food and ...

Researchers are gathering samples from farms across the Island as the second season of the Living Laboratories project hits harvest time. The living lab concept brings together scientists, watershed groups and farmers ...

Judith Nyiraneza, living lab co-lead scientist, says her colleagues at Agriculture Canada are interested in watching the living lab model and the results the work is producing. (Rick Gibbs/CBC) Researchers are gathering samples ...

Two research scientists on P.E.I. have spent their summer trying to grow a better potato, more resistant to scab and greening, which are both costly problems for potato growers. "Common scab is ...

NAIROBI, Sept. 22 (Xinhua) -- Scientists in Kenya have developed potato varieties that are resistant to cyst nematodes in what promises to change fortunes of the crop in the country and across ...

Scientists at CGIAR-IITA, working with the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe) under the joint Nematology Unit, NemAfrica, housed at icipe’s campus in Nairobi, and their national and international partners, have been at the ...

Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists in Albany, California, have found a way to streamline the process that scientists use to insert multiple genes into a crop plant, developing a reliable method that ...

Chinese scientists have developed a nano-material that prevents the sprouting of potatoes. This new anti-sprouting method for potato storage also suppresses the formation of toxic glyco-alkaloids that typically is associated with the ...

Anyone who has ever wondered why some tomatoes can taste so bland might be interested in the work of two Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists in Fort Pierce, Florida. They are taking two different approaches ...