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    • USDA ARS Online Magazine Vol. 46, No. 7

      Agricultural Research Magazine· 6 days ago

      Four years ago, it was found lurking on soybeans growing on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. At a 1995 workshop convened to propose a plan for controlling a possible invasion of P. pachyrhizi, U.S ...

    • USDA ARS Online Magazine Vol. 43, No. 12

      Agricultural Research Magazine· 6 days ago

      Program to convert tropical plants is unique among crops. As a boy, Fred Miller noticed that the chrysanthemums dotting the farms and homesteads of Central Texas where he grew up flowered in ...

    • USDA ARS Online Magazine Vol. 50, No. 11

      Agricultural Research Magazine· 6 days ago

      The research also opens the door to new strategies that could help crop plants sidestep the unwanted, climate-driven influences on rubisco activase and the negative impacts on rubisco and photosynthesis ...

    • USDA ARS Online Magazine Vol. 56, No. 4

      Agricultural Research Magazine· 6 days ago

      The tobacco hornworm larva on the left was inoculated with P. fluorescens Pf-5 bacteria and has lost body rigidity as a result. On the right is a healthy larva not inoculated with bacteria. Each larva is about 2 inches long.

    • USDA ARS Online Magazine Vol. 46, No. 5

      Agricultural Research Magazine· 6 days ago

      TifEagle, a new bermudagrass for putting greens, will debut this summer on golf courses in Florida, Georgia, and other southern states. It is the latest product of Agricultural Research Service ...

    • USDA ARS Online Magazine Vol. 53, No. 2

      Agricultural Research Magazine· 6 days ago

      In the future, that may happen thanks to work by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists to make steaks consistently tender. "Tenderness is the most important trait to consumers," animal ...

    • USDA ARS Online Magazine Vol. 49, No. 6

      Agricultural Research Magazine· 6 days ago

      Iceland's poultry industry could be seen as a smaller version of the industry in the United States, since they operate in similar ways. "There is a thousandfold difference in the size of the ...