Released: 27-Feb-2014 1:00 PM EST
Manipulating Heat and Drought Tolerance in Cowpeas
Texas A&M AgriLife

Cowpeas, known as black-eyed peas in the U.S., are an important and versatile food legume grown in more than 80 countries. Texas A&M University scientists are working to map the genes controlling drought and heat tolerance in recent varieties.

Released: 27-Feb-2014 10:45 AM EST
Eat4-Health Helps South Texas Students Eat, Play Healthy
Texas A&M AgriLife

Eat4-Health program teaches healthy eating and activity habits to students.

Released: 27-Feb-2014 1:00 PM EST
Coffee Recycling Keeps Community Grounded
Texas A&M AgriLife

More than eight tons a month. That’s how much organic material in the form of spent coffee grounds the Austin-based Ground to Ground program diverts from area landfills and makes available to people in the community as compost.

Released: 27-Feb-2014 1:00 PM EST
'Dinner Tonight! Program Promotes Family Nutrition, Togetherness
Texas A&M AgriLife

The percentage of the family food budget spent on away-from-home food has steadily increased since the 1970s and so has the amount of calories families consume.

Released: 27-Feb-2014 10:00 AM EST
Controlling Zebra Chip Disease From the Inside Out
Texas A&M AgriLife

Zebra chip disease in potatoes is currently being managed by controlling the potato psyllid with insecticides. But one Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service specialist is trying to manage the disease symptoms with alternative methods and chemistries.

Released: 25-Jun-2014 2:00 PM EDT
Researchers Discover ‘Trojan Horse’ Method of Penetrating Cellular Walls Without Harm
Texas A&M AgriLife

Scientists with Texas A&M AgriLife Research have found a “Trojan horse” way to deliver proteins into live human cells without damaging them. The finding, published in this month’s Nature Methods, is expected to be easily adopted for use in medical research to find cures and treatments for a wide range of diseases, according to the team’s lead scientist, Dr. Jean-Philippe Pellois, an associate professor of biochemistry at Texas A&M University.

Released: 11-Jul-2014 2:00 PM EDT
Study Identifies Contributing Factors to Groundwater Table Declines
Texas A&M AgriLife

It’s no secret groundwater levels have declined across the state over the past eight decades, and that the primary reason was the onset of irrigation in agriculture and population growth. But a recent Texas A&M AgriLife Research study has identified other factors having an impact.

Released: 25-Jul-2014 11:00 AM EDT
AgriLife Research Putting Designer Potatoes on the Menu to Boost Consumption
Texas A&M AgriLife

A decline in overall potato consumption has Texas A&M AgriLife Research breeders working on “designer” spuds that meet the time constraints and unique tastes of a younger generation.

Released: 8-Sep-2014 8:00 AM EDT
Texas Producers Find New Oil Fields — Olive Groves
Texas A&M AgriLife

Texas has been known for its oil production for almost 150 years. Now, a new oil industry is sprouting in what may bring producers cash and consumers a local, edible choice — olive oil. Olive trees, native to the Mediterranean region, have been planted on an estimated 2,000 acres in the state already, according to Texas A&M AgriLife Extension.

Released: 22-Sep-2014 1:10 PM EDT
Mown Grass Smell Sends SOS for Help in Resisting Insect Attacks
Texas A&M AgriLife

The smell of cut grass in recent years has been identified as the plant’s way of signalling distress, but new research says the aroma also summons beneficial insects to the rescue.

Released: 3-Nov-2014 5:00 PM EST
Texas Roses Must Be ‘on’ Year Round to Make the Cut
Texas A&M AgriLife

It’s late autumn, and most of the blossom-laden plants that colored summer are fading. But seasonal changes offer no excuse for roses in experimental plots around Texas. They had better be loaded with colorful, fragrant autumn blooms and healthy green foliage if they ever expect to be planted in someone’s yard. That’s the contention of picky rose breeder Dr. David Byrne, Texas A&M AgriLife Research scientist based in College Station.

Released: 13-Nov-2014 3:00 PM EST
Electron-Beam Technology a Better Way to Sanitize Ebola Waste?
Texas A&M AgriLife

Dr. Suresh D. Pillai said electron beam technology could be much safer and more cost effective to sanitize ebola virus contaminated equipment and wastewater.

11-Dec-2014 5:00 PM EST
Ibuprofen Use Leads to Extended Lifespan in Several Species, Study Shows
Texas A&M AgriLife

A common over-the-counter drug that tackles pain and fever may also hold keys to a longer, healthier life, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Research scientist. Regular doses of ibuprofen extended the lifespan of multiple species, according to research published in the journal Public Library of Science-Genetics.

Released: 4-Feb-2015 1:00 PM EST
Travis County Celebrates Its Rural History
Texas A&M AgriLife

Article on a celebration of the rural and agrarian roots of Travis County and 100th anniversary of the national land-grant Extension system.

Released: 24-Feb-2015 4:00 PM EST
Texas Crop, Weather for Feb. 24, 2015
Texas A&M AgriLife

Weekly summary of crop, livestock and weather conditions throughout Texas.

   
Released: 2-Mar-2015 5:05 PM EST
AgriLife Extension’s Dinner Tonight! Program Serving Up Variety of Enhancements
Texas A&M AgriLife

The Dinner Tonight! program of the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service has been enhanced and expanded, and its administrators have chosen March, National Nutrition Month, to announce program improvements.

Released: 9-Mar-2015 11:05 AM EDT
Strawberry Fields Forever — a Texas Possibility
Texas A&M AgriLife

Having fresh, local strawberries within reach across Texas is getting closer to reality, though growers and researchers alike say producing the popular fresh fruit is a new field altogether. “Our goal was to add 5 percent to the acreage and we’ve done that,” said Dr. Russ Wallace, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service horticulturist in Lubbock. “There are a lot of interested people. We have revitalized the Texas strawberry industry and gotten people thinking."

Released: 18-Mar-2015 8:05 PM EDT
Stem Cells Help Researchers Peg Rabies Resistance
Texas A&M AgriLife

Researchers at Texas A&M AgriLife Research have developed a new technology to determine sensitivity or resistance to rabies virus.

Released: 2-Apr-2015 11:05 AM EDT
From Cockroaches to Parasitic Wasps, Creepy Crawlers Are for Kids
Texas A&M AgriLife

Introducing what others would call “creepy crawlers” to kids is one way entomologists have witnessed transforming growth both personally and academically for the children they teach. The goal of the Southwestern Branch-Entomological Society of America Youth Science Committee is to help kids get interested in science through bugs.

Released: 12-May-2015 11:05 AM EDT
Feds Approve Wider Testing of Spinach Defenses Against Citrus Greening Disease
Texas A&M AgriLife

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has approved Southern Gardens Citrus’ application for an Experimental Use Permit under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act.

Released: 14-May-2015 9:05 AM EDT
Trash Talk Challenges Texas A&M Agriculture Faculty to Find Ways to Stop Global Food Waste
Texas A&M AgriLife

Agriculture faculty at Texas A&M University are talking trash — as in too much food ends up there. Now they are vowing to team up and figure out how to reduce global food waste by 5 percent over the next decade.

Released: 10-Jun-2015 10:05 AM EDT
Texas Farm Goes Vertical to Net Tall Yields
Texas A&M AgriLife

RED ROCK — In an area of Texas known by locals as “East of Weird” because of its proximity to progressive Austin, a farm is yielding many bushels of fruit and vegetables on a space no larger than a parking space.

Released: 31-Jul-2015 9:05 PM EDT
Researchers: Second Phase of Dama Gazelle Study Will Focus on Social Interactions
Texas A&M AgriLife

In a second phase of research, scientists from Second Ark Foundation and Texas A&M AgriLife Research are again collaborating — this time to find out more about the social interactions of dama gazelles located in the Texas Hill Country.

Released: 3-Aug-2015 9:05 AM EDT
Texas A&M Entities Helping Understand, Monitor Chagas Disease
Texas A&M AgriLife

To keep both animals and humans protected from Chagas disease, Texas A&M University System entities have been studying the parasite-host-vector interaction at sites in South Central Texas.

Released: 3-Aug-2015 12:05 PM EDT
Little Ruby Alternanthera Named Newest Texas Superstar Plant
Texas A&M AgriLife

The ground cover plant, Little Ruby alternanthera has been named the newest Texas Superstar plant.

Released: 4-Aug-2015 10:05 AM EDT
Natural Cocktail Used to Prevent, Treat Disease of Wine Grapes
Texas A&M AgriLife

It’s happy hour at a lab in College Station. The cocktail of choice, developed by scientists with Texas A&M AgriLife Research, is one that stops or prevents the deadly Pierce’s disease on wine grapes. The discovery could turn a new leaf on the multimillion-dollar U.S. wine industry. Hear, hear.

Released: 7-Aug-2015 11:05 AM EDT
Population Changes, Priorities Cause Woodlands to Increase
Texas A&M AgriLife

Woody plant encroachment is one of the biggest challenges facing rangelands worldwide, but it consistently has been under-measured and poorly understood, said a Texas A&M AgriLife Research scientist in College Station.

Released: 18-Aug-2015 3:05 PM EDT
Plant Doctors Get to the Root of Plant Stress in Rice
Texas A&M AgriLife

Rice plants stress in heat. Can't go indoors. So find out what scientists at Texas A&M AgriLife Research are doing about it.

Released: 24-Aug-2015 2:05 PM EDT
Entomologists Sniff Out New Stink Bug to Help Soybean Farmers Control Damage
Texas A&M AgriLife

Entomologists in Texas got a whiff of a new stink bug doing economic damage to soybeans in Texas and are developing ways to help farmers combat it, according to a report in the journal Environmental Entomology.

Released: 24-Aug-2015 2:05 PM EDT
Being a Graduate Student Away From a University Can Stink but in a Good Way
Texas A&M AgriLife

Each year, graduate students may be stationed at remote Texas A&M AgriLife Research locations around the state to help with various studies. Researchers agree that having graduate students is a boon for science.

Released: 31-Aug-2015 4:05 PM EDT
Nation’s Researchers Team Up to Improve, Protect Roses
Texas A&M AgriLife

People should be able to stop and smell the roses, not spray them, said Dr. David Byrne, Texas A&M AgriLife Research rose breeder in College Station. Byrne is part of two national specialty crop research projects aimed at toughening up roses’ ability to ward off diseases and other pestilences. He cited surveys in which the gardening public said the No. 1 desired trait is disease resistance.

Released: 14-Sep-2015 10:05 AM EDT
Plastic Tubs May Hold Secrets to Producing More Rice for the World
Texas A&M AgriLife

Dozens of plastic tubs stacked in a room may look ordinary, but they store what could be the secrets to more rice to feed the world. The containers are the resting place for what’s known by scientists as a “core collection,” or fraction of all the known varieties of rice on Earth. Yet, even from their plastic vaults housed at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center in Beaumont, these grains are yielding data scientists say will help make better varieties for years to come.

Released: 14-Sep-2015 3:05 PM EDT
Study Examines Role of Vegetable Food Pairings in School Plate Waste
Texas A&M AgriLife

A study led by a team of Texas A&M University System researchers found school meals paired with popular vegetables are less likely to wind up in garbage bins. A team led by Texas A&M AgriLife Research and the Institute for Obesity Research and Program Evaluation at Texas A&M University measured food waste in three elementary schools in Bryan and Dallas. The schools are participants in the U.S. Department of Agriculture National School Lunch Program both in pre- and post-implementation of the new standards.

Released: 25-Sep-2015 4:05 PM EDT
Researchers Discover Contenders in Molecular Arms Race of Major Plant Disease
Texas A&M AgriLife

Researchers have discovered how a tiny viral protein enables the infection of a complex plant, and the finding could lead to understanding viral diseases in other plants, animals and humans, according to a team of Texas A&M AgriLife Research biochemists.

Released: 26-Sep-2015 10:05 PM EDT
Plum Good Health Benefits
Texas A&M AgriLife

Researchers from Texas A&M University and the University of North Carolina have shown a diet containing dried plums can positively affect microbiota, also referred to as gut bacteria, throughout the colon, helping reduce the risk of colon cancer.

   
Released: 20-Oct-2015 8:05 AM EDT
With Organic Rice in Demand, Scientists to Help Farmers Improve Production
Texas A&M AgriLife

Organic rice is increasingly desired by U.S. consumers, but farmers know that growing the grain chemically free can mean providing a feast for insects, diseases and weeds. That’s why the U.S. Department of Agriculture has put $1 million on a multi-state team of scientists with a track record of battling pests toward the goal of making organic rice profitable for farmers and more available for consumers. The grant also establishes the first Center of Excellence for organic rice research in the U.S.

Released: 9-Nov-2015 9:00 AM EST
Researchers Discover Control for Devastating Disease in Texas Vineyards
Texas A&M AgriLife

A product that helped stop a 100-year-old battle with a cotton disease in Texas has been proven effective in stopping the same fungus from devastating vineyards, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Research plant pathologist.

Released: 18-Nov-2015 10:05 AM EST
Research Shows Texas Grow! Eat! Go! Interventions Having Positive Impact on Youth
Texas A&M AgriLife

Research has shown that efforts through the Texas Grow! Eat! Go! program have had a positive effect on improving the health and wellness of youth in the five participating Texas counties.

Released: 7-Dec-2015 2:05 PM EST
Planners Aim for Coastal Growth in All the Right Places
Texas A&M AgriLife

When it comes to helping coastal communities be more resilient to weather hazards, ideas don’t need to be sandbagged, experts say. That’s why the Federal Emergency Management Agency has granted $750,000 to a program that already is experienced in working with city leaders along the Texas coast and other Gulf states.

Released: 18-Dec-2015 12:05 PM EST
Bacteria Battle: How One Changes Appearance, Moves Away to Resist the Other
Texas A&M AgriLife

Two types of bacteria found in the soil have enabled scientists at Texas A&M AgriLife Research to get the dirt on how resistance to antibiotics develops along with a separate survival strategy. The study, published in the journal PLoS Genetics this month, identifies an atypical antibiotic molecule and the way in which the resistance to that molecule arises, including the identity of the genes that are responsible, according to Dr. Paul Straight, AgriLife Research biochemist.

Released: 8-Jan-2016 12:05 PM EST
Increased Legal Liabilities Limit Prescribed Fire Use for Brush Control
Texas A&M AgriLife

COLLEGE STATION – Private landowners and managers tend to shy away from the use of prescribed fire for maintaining rangeland and forest ecosystems in spite of the known benefits due to the potential liability factor, according to a Texas A&M University study.

Release date: 8-Jan-2016 12:05 PM EST
texas a m scientists air rebuttal through journal letter
Texas A&M AgriLife

Two Texas A&M University scientists highlighted the conservation benefits of ecotourism worldwide and said a recent research review citing the dangers of ecotourism to wildlife is premature and problematic.

Released: 8-Jan-2016 12:05 PM EST
Texas A&M Scientists Air Rebuttal Through Journal Letter
Texas A&M AgriLife

Two Texas A&M University scientists highlighted the conservation benefits of ecotourism worldwide and said a recent research review citing the dangers of ecotourism to wildlife is premature and problematic.

Released: 8-Jan-2016 12:05 PM EST
Authors of Science Journal Article Strive to Save World's Mightiest Rivers
Texas A&M AgriLife

A group of 40 international scientists led by a Texas A&M University System professor says three of the earth's mightiest rivers are being ravaged in the name of progress. -30-

Released: 2-Feb-2016 4:05 PM EST
Two AgriLife Research Entomologists Co-Author Bedbug Genome Mapping Paper
Texas A&M AgriLife

COLLEGE STATION – Two Texas A&M AgriLife Research entomologists are among a team of some 80 international scientists whose work in sequencing the genome of the bedbug was published in the scientific journal Nature Communications on Feb. 2.

5-Apr-2016 4:15 PM EDT
Enzyme Discovery Leads Scientists Further Down Path to Pumping Oil From Plants
Texas A&M AgriLife

An enzyme responsible for making hydrocarbons has been discovered by Texas A&M AgriLife Research scientists studying a common green microalga called Botryococcus braunii.

5-May-2016 12:00 PM EDT
Understanding Lock for Cellular Trap Door May Lead to Better Disease Treatment
Texas A&M AgriLife

A team of researchers who two years ago announced a “Trojan horse” method of entering a cell without harming it have now found, in effect, the lock to the cellular “trap door.”

Released: 20-Jul-2016 10:05 AM EDT
Energy Department Grants $2.5M for Biorefinery Waste Use, Renewable Bioproduct Study
Texas A&M AgriLife

The US DOE grants $2.5 million to Texas A&M AgriLife Research to turn biorefinery waste into new products. "It's said anything but money can be made of lignin. Yet, that is the majority of what's left in the biorefinery plants," said Dr. Joshua Yuan, project leader. "Until we resolve this problem, biorefinery is not going to become economically viable."

Released: 18-Aug-2016 8:05 AM EDT
Texas Tomato Growers Slicing Into Vegetable Market with Fresh Fruit All Fall
Texas A&M AgriLife

Tomatoes are the Type B’s of the vegetable world: Laid-back, creative, collaborative.


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