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Agriculture

End of the bee-mergency? Despite blizzard and drought, populations are poised for recovery, entomologists say

Sufficient rain and mild weather indicate an upturn in late spring or early summer
Agriculture

What causes locusts to destroy crops? USDA-approved facility studies the insects’ Jekyll-to-Hyde transformation

Most recent outbreak caused $1.3 billion in damage across 23 countries from Ethiopia to Nepal
Agriculture

What works for raising chickens also works for raising ducks, right? Not so, says Texas A&M poultry scientist

Associate professor is filing in the gaps in research on commercial duck production
National Security

Creating food security would reduce emigration, crime and radicalization around the world, new economic report says

Farm Journal Foundation commissions study from Texas A&M’s Program on Conflict and Development
Epidemiology

Mystery solved? How a common herbicide may have triggered a kidney-disease epidemic in Central America

Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology publishes results of NIH-funded study
Agriculture

Without adding nitrates: New process could substitute amino acid to cure jerky, bacon and other meats

USDA is funding a Texas A&M-led effort to search for an alternative curing system
Agriculture

Farming the cosmos: NASA-funded study investigates effects of space radiation on plants during interplanetary travel

Texas A&M-led team will focus on oxidation status, telomere length dynamics and genome stability
Genetics

War of the roses: How to save an industry with plants that resist two common-but-devastating diseases

Rose rosette disease hampers U.S. production; black spot disease damages field-grown roses globally
Agriculture

Awards presented at Texas A&M postdoctoral research symposium

Sixth annual event marks National Postdoc Appreciation Week