PERTH, Australia, March 23 (TNSJou) -- Curtin University issued the following news release: The Centre for Crop and Disease Management (CCDM) is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Josh Mylne to the role of Deputy Director. Most recently appointed to The University of Western Australia's School of Molecular Sciences, Professor Mylne brings extensive academic and research experience to CCDM and has earned an impressive list of achievements, publication, and awards. In his new posi  more

LONDON, England, March 18 -- The Journal of African Literature Association, a peer-reviewed journal that says it features oral, literary and related arts of Africa and the African Diaspora, published research articles on the following topics in its Vol. 15, No. 1 edition: Article: * Conning the contours of South African poetry, 1970-2010 * E-fraud economy as an emergent perspective towards the corpus of African hustler narratives * Ton pied, Mon pied... Asso!: L'esthetique de l'hybridite li  more

ROCKVILLE, Maryland, March 22 -- The Journal of Nutrition, a peer-reviewed journal from the American Society for Nutrition that says it covers experimental nutrition, published research articles, including the following topics, in its March 2021 edition: CRITICAL REVIEW: * Lessons Learned from Hereditary 1,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D-Resistant Rickets Patients on Vitamin D Functions OBESITY AND EATING DISORDERS: * Do Lower-Carbohydrate Diets Increase Total Energy Expenditure? An Updated and Reanal  more

TOPEKA, Kansas, March 20 -- The Kansas Department of Agriculture issued the following news release on March 18, 2021: The Kansas Department of Agriculture has announced the result of the elections held for the state's five grain commodity commissions -- corn, grain sorghum, soybeans, sunflowers and wheat -- in districts one, two, and three in the western region of the state. Kansas Corn Commission District One: Brian Baalman, Sheridan County District Two: Dennis McNinch, Ness County Distric  more

LAKEWOOD, Colorado, March 17 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service - Mountain Regional Field Office issued the following news release: This report contains corn, soybean, wheat, and Upland cotton price reactions to the USDA Crop Production and Grain Stocks reports. Each year, estimates of corn, soybean, wheat, and cotton production are published in the monthly Crop Production reports. Corn and soybean estimates are published in the August, September, O  more

KANSAS CITY, Missouri, March 18 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture issued the following news release: The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) recently awarded over $8.5 million in funding for 29 research and Extension grants that will advance solutions to critically important problems in U.S. agriculture. "These NIFA investments in user-inspired projects bring together researchers, Extension experts,  more

SASKATOON, Saskatchewan, March 19 (TNSJou) -- The University of Saskatchewan issued the following news release on March 18, 2021: An international team led by the IPK Leibniz Institute in Germany and including University of Saskatchewan (USask) researchers has succeeded in completely decoding the genome of rye, despite its large size and complexity. Rye is a distinctly climate-resistant cereal plant that is of considerable importance for Germany and northeastern Europe. In Canada, most rye is   more