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Released: 11-Feb-2025 8:15 PM EST
Brewing Food Security: Transforming Food Waste Into Sustainable Nutrition
Texas A&M AgriLife

As a food scientist, Reza Ovissipour, Ph.D., knows that one industry’s waste can be another’s solution to feeding a growing population — once you perfect the fermentation process.

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Released: 14-Jan-2025 6:45 PM EST
Texas A&M AgriLife Research Aims for Better Control of Widespread Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus
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Texas A&M AgriLife Research scientists have received two grants from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the National Science Foundation to develop better control and understanding of tomato spotted wilt virus, one of the top 10 most economically important plant viruses in the world.

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Released: 23-Dec-2024 6:25 PM EST
First-of-its-kind Project to Improve Muscadine Grapes
Texas A&M AgriLife

Texas A&M AgriLife will collaborate in a first-of-its-kind project to propagate new seedless muscadine grape varieties to benefit grape growers in Texas and beyond.

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Released: 16-Dec-2024 7:10 PM EST
AgriLife Research Leads Collaboration to Address Zebra Chip Disease
Texas A&M AgriLife

Texas A&M AgriLife Research scientists are working on a new research project to fight plant diseases transmitted by psyllid insects — particularly the zebra chip disease, which has impacted potato production for decades.

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Released: 10-Dec-2024 6:20 PM EST
Preempting African Swine Fever in Texas with Research
Texas A&M AgriLife

As feral hog populations increase in Texas and the U.S., they create desirable conditions for disease-carrying ticks and increase the risk for an outbreak of African swine fever virus, ASFV.

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Released: 9-Dec-2024 4:50 PM EST
Controlling Infectious Disease Between Wildlife and Livestock on Shared Rangeland
Texas A&M AgriLife

Sapna Chitlapilly Dass, Ph.D., assistant professor in microbial ecology and microbiome interactions, Department of Animal Science, is studying the ongoing threat of emerging pathogens that can necessitate prompt deployment of medical countermeasures for life-saving interventions.

   
Newswise: Breakthrough Could Revolutionize Future of Tick Control
Released: 27-Nov-2024 11:00 AM EST
Breakthrough Could Revolutionize Future of Tick Control
Texas A&M AgriLife

Research collaboration by the Texas A&M Department of Entomology and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, USDA, creates potential for genetic tools to control disease-spreading ticks.

   
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Released: 27-Nov-2024 10:15 AM EST
AgriLife Research-led Cotton Belt Sustainability Effort Underway
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AgriLife Research weed science and cropping systems agronomist Muthukumar “Muthu” Bagavathiannan, Ph.D., is leading a $10 million grant project to transform cotton production into a more sustainable system in the southern U.S. Bagavathiannan is the Billie Turner Professor of Agronomy in the Texas A&M Department of Soil and Crop Sciences.

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Released: 18-Nov-2024 10:45 AM EST
What Is Citrus Greening — and Why Is It So Hard to Stop?
Texas A&M AgriLife

Citrus greening, also known as Huanglongbing, is a plant disease that has decimated citrus production in the U.S., particularly in Florida, California and Texas, the top three citrus-producing states. It affects almost all citrus species, including orange, grapefruit, lemon and lime trees. It has caused reduced yields, financial losses for producers and higher citrus prices for consumers.

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Released: 4-Nov-2024 4:40 PM EST
Discovery of a Protein’s Key Role in RNA Processes Could Improve Disease Treatment in Humans and Plants
Texas A&M AgriLife

Texas A&M AgriLife researchers uncovered a promising target for controlling gene expression and other cellular processes, which could lead to advancements in crop resilience and our understanding of certain human diseases.

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Released: 25-Oct-2024 2:20 PM EDT
How Fear Fuels Fight or Flight
Texas A&M AgriLife

Vishal Gohil, Ph.D., professor in the Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, said fear triggers the adrenal gland to release adrenaline, a hormone that targets specific organs to help you react quickly.

Newswise: Texas a&M AgriLife Home to World’s Top Animal Science Researchers, According to research.com
Released: 18-Sep-2024 12:05 PM EDT
Texas a&M AgriLife Home to World’s Top Animal Science Researchers, According to research.com
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Texas A&M AgriLife home to world’s top animal science researchers, according to Research.com

Newswise: Texas A&M AgriLife Researchers Identify Novel Approach to Minimize Nitrogen Loss in Crops
Released: 16-Sep-2024 3:05 PM EDT
Texas A&M AgriLife Researchers Identify Novel Approach to Minimize Nitrogen Loss in Crops
Texas A&M AgriLife

A Texas A&M AgriLife Research team is working to find crop varieties, starting with sorghum, that will minimize that escaped nitrogen, thus reducing input costs for farmers and greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere.

Newswise: Researchers resolve old mystery of how phages disarm pathogenic bacteria
Released: 15-Apr-2024 8:05 AM EDT
Researchers resolve old mystery of how phages disarm pathogenic bacteria
Texas A&M AgriLife

New study details long-sought mechanisms and structures

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Released: 31-Jan-2024 12:05 PM EST
Importance of irrigation water to Lower Rio Grande Valley agriculture highlighted in new report
Texas A&M AgriLife

The economic impact of the complete lack of irrigation water for crop production in the Lower Rio Grande Valley in 2024 would be an estimated $495.8 million in direct revenue loss, according to a recent report by the Center for North American Studies, CNAS.

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Released: 30-Jan-2024 1:05 PM EST
From moon ‘dust’ to moon ‘soil’
Texas A&M AgriLife

Texas A&M graduate student grows chickpeas in amended moondust.

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Released: 25-Jan-2024 9:00 AM EST
Texas A&M AgriLife expands controlled environment horticulture initiatives
Texas A&M AgriLife

Horticultural research remains at epicenter of growing field.

Newswise: Center for Advanced Research in Forensic Science enters Phase II
Released: 22-Jan-2024 8:05 AM EST
Center for Advanced Research in Forensic Science enters Phase II
Texas A&M AgriLife

Texas A&M is collaborating with center-lead Florida International University and Sam Houston State University within the nation’s only forensic science Industry-University Cooperative Research Center.

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Released: 18-Jan-2024 4:05 PM EST
Texas A&M AgriLife Research study may lead to novel obesity treatment
Texas A&M AgriLife

New study provides insights on role of ‘hunger hormone’ receptor in obesity-realted chronic inflammation.

   
Newswise: Answering the cattle nutrition protein question
Released: 12-Jan-2024 6:05 PM EST
Answering the cattle nutrition protein question
Texas A&M AgriLife

Knowing exactly how beef cattle utilize protein is important to answering many nutrition questions producers and industry nutritionists pose to Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service specialists like Jason Smith, Ph.D., Amarillo.



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