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From:Agricultural Research (Vol. 46, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedScientists at the Agricultural Research Service Horticultural Crops Quality Laboratory have discovered an inexpensive natural method for reducing decay and extending the shelf life of fresh-cut produce. The process...
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From:Agricultural Research (Vol. 46, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAgricultural Research Service parasitologist Dolores Hill collects blacklegged deer ticks as part of a research on how to biologically control the pests with nematodes. She aims to utilize the microscopic roundworms as...
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From:Agricultural Research (Vol. 40, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe Agricultural Research Service's (ARS) research laboratories allow high school students and teachers in small towns to participate in scientific research. Students who participate in the Research Apprenticeship...
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From:Agricultural Research (Vol. 41, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedResearchers at the Agricultural Research Service's US Grain Marketing Research Laboratory are working on diverse projects that have the common goal of marketing higher-quality wheat. Such an approach requires the...
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From:Agricultural Research (Vol. 41, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedSoybeans are used in an ever-growing array of edible and nonedible products. Soy milk's importance as a food product is growing, and soy oil is widely used. Agricultural Research Service (ARS) studies have resulted in...
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From:Agricultural Research (Vol. 41, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedResearchers are seeking the best strategy to control weeds and, at the same time, minimize the use of herbicides. Approximately 85% of all chemical pesticides used on the top 10 US crops are herbicides, and over 80% of...
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From:Agricultural Research (Vol. 42, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedAgricultural Research Service scientist Philip A. Moore Jr., working with University of Arkansas scientists, is seeking ways of making poultry litter more environmentally sound. Moore explained that litter used as...
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From:Agricultural Research (Vol. 42, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedThe Agricultural Research Service (ARS) is at the forefront of the integrated pest management approach (IPM), which incorporates new developments in pesticide research and innovative crop management techniques. The...
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From:Agricultural Research (Vol. 44, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedA team of researchers led by Agricultural Research Service horticulturist Ralph Scorza has developed transgenic plum plants that are resistant to the deadly plum pox virus which attacks prunus crops such as plums,...
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From:Agricultural Research (Vol. 53, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAntibiotics were once called miracle drugs because they revolutionized treatment of disease, curing bacterial infections that used to lead to debilitation and, all too often, death. Not only humans, but also livestock...
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From:Agricultural Research (Vol. 47, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedAn article about research into soil conservation for cotton farms located in the Tennessee River Valley is presented. The research seeks to develop tillage systems that will improve soil quality and cut costs while...
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From:Agricultural Research (Vol. 57, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe Agricultural Research Service has collaborators in each of the 50 states, many of them at colleges, universities, or state-sponsored organizations. Many, but not all, of these collaborators are land-grant...
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From:Agricultural Research (Vol. 51, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedFor a quarter century, scientists at ARS' Wheat, Peanut, and Other Field Crops Research Unit in Stillwater, Oklahoma, have worked to improve disease resistance and oil quality in peanuts. The researchers, working in...
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From:Agricultural Research (Vol. 39, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedTripping the Light Switch Fantastic In 1918, a pair of U.S. Department of Agriculture scientists in northern Virginia asked two simple questions, launching an intellectual voyage still far from over. Their discoveries...
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From:Agricultural Research (Vol. 40, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedUS Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists at Woodward, Oklahoma are developing a range plant profile computer program that will allow users to select plants best suited for a particular...
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From:Agricultural Research (Vol. 40, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedHorticulturists from the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) are attempting to breed a more disease-resistant variety of Theobroma cacao trees, which produce cocoa used in the production of chocolate. The trees are found...
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From:Agricultural Research (Vol. 40, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIt's enough to put a soap opera to shame: Neighbors killing neighbors, poisoning the environment, boosting a favored few at the expense of others. But the setting isn't some steamy small town; it's a pastoral meadow...
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From:Agricultural Research (Vol. 41, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedIt is possible to differentiate between all living things through DNA fingerprints. Steve Kresovich has studied the genetic diversity of germplasm in fruits, vegetables and other crop plants both at the New York State...
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From:Agricultural Research (Vol. 42, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedAn Agricultural Research Service study has shown that drip irrigation is cost-effective when used to grow plantains and bananas in semiarid tropical areas. The study, performed in Puerto Rico, showed that, on a 50-acre...
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From:Agricultural Research (Vol. 42, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedA research team at the Agricultural Research Service's Subtropical Agricultural Research Laboratory is testing the nematode Steinernema riobravis as a method of controlling corn earworms, pink bollworms and fall...