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Dec. 20, 2023 A study appearing in Nature Communications based on field and greenhouse experiments at the University of Kansas shows how a boost in agricultural yield comes from planting diverse crops rather ...
Nov. 29, 2022 Reforestation projects should include a variety of tree species and ensure genetic diversity within each species to maximize new forests' health and ...
Sep. 6, 2023 Researchers have investigated how the behavior of an individual wheat plant under limiting light conditions influences the performance of the whole community. They assessed morphological and biomass ...
Sep. 14, 2022 Crops bred to thrive in single-crop settings begin adapting to growing in multispecies environments over just two generations, shows a new ...
May 24, 2022 Climate change will make the U.S. Corn Belt unsuitable for cultivating corn by 2100 without major technological advances in agricultural practices, a new study ...
June 27, 2022 Researchers have identified a specific bacterial microbe that, when fed to honey bee larvae, can reduce the effects of nutritional stress on developing ...
Nov. 29, 2022 A simple breeding experiment, combined with genetic analysis, can rapidly uncover genes that promote cooperation and higher yields of plant populations, according to a new study. The results have the ...
June 24, 2021 What holds true for meadows would seem to apply to arable land, too: mixed cultures are more fruitful than ...
Mar. 14, 2022 A new study estimates that over the next 30 years, 1.4 million street trees will be killed by invasive insects, costing over 900 million dollars to ...
Aug. 16, 2021 Disappearing habitats and use of pesticides are driving the loss of pollinator species around the world, posing a threat to 'ecosystem services' that provide food and wellbeing to many ...