Researchers Find How Disease-resistant Plants Recognize Bacteria
...turally. Gregory B. Martin, associate professor of agronomy at Purdue, and his colleagues found that an enzyme called Pto kinase, a protein that is produced by a disease-resistance gene in plants, works inside plant cells by binding to a protein produced by a disease-causing bacterium, which alerts the plant'...New "Wonder Peanut" Beats Olive Oil In Healthful Benefits
..., a UF Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences agronomy professor, not only surpasses olive oil in cholesterol-lowering properties, it offers growers better yields than the industry standard, "Florunner" - 10 to 14 percent more peanuts per acre, he says. And if that isn't enough, it offers manufacturers a...... were developed by Dr. Tim Croughan, aprofessor of agronomy with the Louisiana Agricultural Experiment Station...ieties." Dr. Steve Linscombe, professor of agronomy at the Rice Research Station,is leading the initiative to incorporate the herbicide tolerance charac...Putting Doesn't Pollute, Research Finds
... meeting in Boston. Ronald Turco, professor of agronomy and director of Purdue University'sEnvironmental Sciences and Engineering Institute, says that four years ofresearch on fungicides at Purdue have found that fungicides do not present aproblem to the environment if they are applied according to the ma...Glenn To Perform Purdue Soybean Experiment In Space
...good." Vierling, an adjunct associate professor of agronomy at Purdue University and director of the Indiana Crop Improvement Association's genetics program since 1992, says the experiment should take 22 hours to complete and is scheduled to begin Oct. 30. Vierling approached NASA's Commercialization Center i...Oil Spill Cleanup Product Made From Sugar Byproduct
...il microbiology and environmental researcherin the agronomy department of the LSU Ag Center, used milled bagasse -- thefibrous leftovers from sugar production -- to soak up spilled oil and create anenvironment that sustains the bacteria that digest the goo. "The oil transportation industry needed some...Purdue researchers clean up petroleum spills with plants
...Purdue professor of civil engineering. She and her agronomy professor husband, Paul Schwab, were one of the first research teams to develop methods for field-testing phytoremediation, the use of plants to clean up contaminated soil. Banks says her expertise solving hazardous waste problems combined with Schwa...Purdue researchers unveil program to track crop traits
...t a reasonable cost," says Rick Vierling, a Purdue agronomy professor and director of the Indiana Crop Improvement Association Genetics Lab. The program will help breeders and producers develop crops that are more nutritious, are easier to process or have pharmaceutical properties, he says. Vierling and Purdu...Agricultural biotechnology hot topic at ASTA corn & sorghum and soybean seed research conferences
... by Randy Shoemaker, Ph.D., associate professor of agronomy at Iowa State University, and enhanced soybean oil..., respectively. Pat Schnable, Ph.D., professor of agronomy at Iowa State University, will discuss bioinformatics, which enables scientists to predict the expre...Florida research shows that for rice, warmer earth brings uncertain future
...e the rice is cultivated, said Kenneth Boote, a UF agronomy professor involved in the project. "We're on the downhill side for rice and soybeans now, so if there's any temperature increase the yield will slide down," Boote said. Although the plants continued to flourish, they produced nearly no rice at the ...UC Davis will establish new graduate school of the environment
...as been inadequate," said Kevin Rice, professor of agronomy and range science and chairperson of the Ecology Graduate Group. "I am hopeful that this new school will increase our capacity to recruit and retain top-notch students and will provide sufficient incentives for faculty to develop and teach graduate c...... resident of Hope Valley, Saila received a B.S. in agronomy from the University of Rhode Island, and an M.S. in limnology and a Ph.D. in fishery biology from Cornell University. He came to URI as an assistant professor of marine biology in 1956 and became a professor of oceanography and zoology in 1967. He ha...Purdue leads center using pollution-busting plants, microbes
...ive solutions." Working with Paul Schwab, a Purdue agronomy professor, Banks has pioneered the use of plants to rid petroleum products from soil. The research team has used plants to help clean up a Texas oil pipeline spill, contamination at an Indiana site where manufactured gas was produced from coal, indus...New research could spearhead permanent nuclear waste storage
...entrated waste solutions," said Johnston, a Purdue agronomy professor. "The significance of that is related to two different areas: minimizing high-level nuclear waste volume for permanent storage, and eventually determining what happens to the material when it leaks out of the tank." Scientists want to be ab...Researchers arming farms to halt increases in greenhouse gases
...by using U.S. farmland. Ronald Turco, professor of agronomy and director of the CASMGS program at Purdue, said...d into the atmosphere." Charles Rice, professor of agronomy at Kansas State University and director of the CASMGS program, said carbon dioxide in the atmosphere...New screening technique may speed hunt for genes
...," said Lauren McIntyre, an assistant professor of agronomy and member of the Computational Genomics Group at Purdue.Wayne's research centers on perhaps genetic science's most classic organism: the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster. Female flies of this species have varying numbers of ovarioles -- chambers i...Giant bloom fades, science continues
...ffect on the plant. Judy Jernstedt, a professor of agronomy and range science, used dental impression paste to take casts of the spadix surface. She will use light and scanning electron microscopes to look for stomata, the tiny pores that control water loss from leaves. The pattern or distribution of stomata ...K-State, other universities to study how climate affects plant evolution
...." said Steve Welch, professor in the university's agronomy department and the lead K-State researcher on the project. "We'll be studying ecology and genomics (genetic material) and how they interact -- it's a new area." The research will examine how a plant's genome integrates environmental signals and evolv...