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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
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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
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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’
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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
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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
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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.

Newswise: Texas A&M Potato Breeding Program highlights market, varietal expansions
Released: 12-Jan-2024 2:05 PM EST
Texas A&M Potato Breeding Program highlights market, varietal expansions
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The latest advanced potato clones from the Texas A&M Potato Breeding Program, especially those for the french fry and fresh markets, will be highlighted during the National Potato Expo by Isabel Vales, Ph.D., Texas A&M AgriLife potato breeder in the Department of Horticultural Sciences in the Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

Newswise: Texas A&M AgriLife Research gets $5.2 million grant for onion improvement
Released: 10-Jan-2024 6:05 PM EST
Texas A&M AgriLife Research gets $5.2 million grant for onion improvement
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Texas A&M AgriLife Research received more than $5.2 million in grant funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture for a project to address multiple aspects of the southern U.S. onion harvest system.

Newswise: Texas Climate-Smart Initiative opens producer application period
Released: 10-Jan-2024 1:05 PM EST
Texas Climate-Smart Initiative opens producer application period
Texas A&M AgriLife

Texas commodity producers interested in improving the sustainability of their operations can apply to participate in the Texas Climate-Smart Initiative, spearheaded by Texas A&M AgriLife Research.

Newswise: New heat pump system being developed to dry, dehydrate food products
Released: 28-Dec-2023 9:00 AM EST
New heat pump system being developed to dry, dehydrate food products
Texas A&M AgriLife

Scientists are looking for a more environmentally and economically friendly heat pump system to dry food and feed products ranging from grain for livestock to apple chips in the grocery store.

Newswise: Finding the ‘goldilocks’ zone or conditions in rice irrigation
Released: 28-Dec-2023 8:05 AM EST
Finding the ‘goldilocks’ zone or conditions in rice irrigation
Texas A&M AgriLife

Alternate wetting and drying, a rice irrigation practice dating back to the 1980s, is part of a broader Texas A&M AgriLife study investigating its potential to reduce water and fertilizer use.

Newswise: Animal science student finds new passion working at swine center
Released: 25-Dec-2023 12:05 AM EST
Animal science student finds new passion working at swine center
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What started with an eagerness for a hands-on learning experience in the Department of Animal Science in the Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences ended with a new passion and opportunity for Carlie Rogers ’24, a first-generation college student from Diana.

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Released: 21-Dec-2023 5:05 PM EST
Texas A&M study shows biochar enhances soil health
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An ancient soil amendment – biochar – could be a promising tool for future soil health enhancement and maintenance, according to a study by the Texas A&M Department of Horticultural Sciences.

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Released: 21-Dec-2023 4:05 PM EST
The search for thermotolerant dairy cows
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Identifying efficient dairy cattle in a climate of higher temperatures is the goal of one scientist in the Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Department of Animal Science.

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Released: 21-Dec-2023 2:05 PM EST
Vargo elected Entomological Society of America Fellow
Texas A&M AgriLife

Edward Vargo, Ph.D., professor and endowed chair of urban entomology in the Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Department of Entomology, was elected as an Entomological Society of America Fellow.

Newswise: Department of Food Science and Technology researcher explores agrifood system solutions
Released: 11-Dec-2023 3:05 AM EST
Department of Food Science and Technology researcher explores agrifood system solutions
Texas A&M AgriLife

Reza Ovissipour, Ph.D., a Texas A&M AgriLife Research assistant professor in the Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Department of Food Science and Technology, is actively contributing to solutions for the crucial food-related challenges of today — and tomorrow.



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