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Can soil microbes improve agricultural sustainability?

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Can soil microbes improve agricultural sustainability? Dr Nathaniel (Nate) Boyer is focused on the role nitrogen plays in agriculture. At Washington State University in the US, Dr Nathaniel Boyer is a biochemist working to find a more environmentally friendly solution. Is there another solution?

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How are control engineers improving the sustainability of irrigated agriculture?

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How are control engineers improving the sustainability of irrigated agriculture? Feedback control — achieving desired behaviour by measuring what is happening and using this information to adjust the control inputs. On the other hand, climate change and competing uses for water outside agriculture impact the supply side.

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Plant polymers as plastic alternatives

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© Gorodenkoff /Shutterstock.com Graduate students in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences Parisa Nazemi Ashani (left) and Wei-Shu Lin (right) are working on a project to support the Chesapeake Bay. Traditionally, it has focused on areas like agriculture and biomedicine, but it has since become much broader.

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Keep calm and carrot on: how can we breed better carrots?

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At the US Department of Agriculture Vegetable Crop Research Unit at the University of Wisconsin-Madison , USA, Dr Bill Rolling and Dr Jenyne Loarca are investigating what influences carrot germination and growth, helping plant breeders to cultivate more successful carrot varieties. Keep calm and carrot on: how can we breed better carrots?

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Fields and fungicides: mixing microbiology and social science

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AZOLE – a group of chemical compounds often used as agricultural or medicinal fungicides. Together, they investigated how fungicide use in agriculture could potentially lead to antimicrobial resistance in human diseases. ANTIBIOTIC – any compound that combats or destroys bacterial microbes. mould, mildew or mushrooms).

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Engaging with the science behind food

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At North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in the US, Dr Salam A. In the Food Microbiology and Biotechnology Lab at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T), Dr Salam A. Engaging with the science behind food Published: The preparation of food is biochemically complex. Dr Salam A.

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Protecting crops from nematodes

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Based at Clemson University’s College of Agriculture in South Carolina, Paula’s FINDMe project has the broad task of understanding this nematode in detail, and using this knowledge to develop management strategies and crop varieties that show resistance to this species.