BASEL, Switzerland, Nov. 19 -- Agriculture, a peer-reviewed scientific open access journal on the science of cultivating the soil, growing, harvesting crops and raising livestock, published research articles on the following topics in its October 2024 edition (Vol. 14, Issue 10): * Article - A Geographically Weighted Regression-Compute Unified Device Architecture Approach to Explore the Spatial Agglomeration and Heterogeneity in Arable Land Consumption in Southwest China * Article - A Multi-Vi  more

BLACKSBURG, Virginia, Nov. 18 -- Virginia Tech issued the following news: With expertise in plant pathology, entomology, and molecular biology, Shirin Parizad is well-equipped to address the challenges posed by vector-borne plant viruses in agricultural fields. While obtaining her Ph.D. in plant pathology from the University of Tehran, she realized that understanding insect vectors or how insects transmit disease is critical for minimizing the transmission of plant viruses in crops. After dec  more

STILLWATER, Oklahoma, Nov. 21 -- Oklahoma State University issued the following news: A new wheat variety released by Oklahoma State University will help eastern and northern Oklahoma farmers combat the small grain fungal disease fusarium head blight, also known as head scab. "It's not a common disease in Oklahoma, but it's dangerous enough that we needed to have something in place for it, especially in the area of Oklahoma east of I-35 and further north," said Dr. Brett Carver, professor and   more

BRISBANE, Australia, Nov. 22 -- The Queensland University of Technology issued the following news: A project to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from cotton production systems to enable Australia to be the preferred international supplier of low emissions fibre has received $1,985,000 from the Australian Government's Climate-Smart Agriculture Program Partnerships and Innovation Grants Round and $800,000 from the Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC). Principal researcher Professor   more

SANTA MONICA, California, Nov. 20 (TNSres) -- Rand issued the following excerpts of a commentary on Nov. 16, 2024, to the National Interest: * * * Understanding Climate Migration By Shelly Culbertson Representatives from countries around the world are convened in Baku, Azerbaijan, through Friday (November 22) for the United Nations Climate Change Conference, commonly known as the COP29, for ongoing talks on carbon emission reductions and the mitigation of climate-change-induced droughts, hea  more

COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Nov. 21 (TNSres) -- The University of Copenhagen issued the following news: FOOD: Fiber is something that most of us get far too little of. To change that, we need to actually enjoy eating it. Food researchers from the University of Copenhagen have now invented a "disguise" that solves the problem of the dry and gritty mouth feel of fibers. Think of how it would be to drink a juice with wheat bran in it - you may imagine an unpleasant gritty sensation which would make you   more

ITHACA, New York, Nov. 20 -- Cornell University issued the following news: As a child, Archibald Annan, M.P.A. '23, lived through the 1983 drought in Ghana that brought the country to the brink of starvation. In 2022, when Russia invaded Ukraine, he felt history repeating itself, as numerous African countries plunged into a food security crisis due to their reliance on European grain. But this time, Annan had an idea for how to help and, as a master's student in the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks Schoo  more