Herd immunity: Disease transmission from wildlife to livestock

Transmission of diseases from wildlife to livestock is a common threat in Alberta, according to new research by University of Alberta biologists. Foothills in the southwestern part of the province are home to wild elk as well as cattle on ranchlands -- and when the species intermingle, the potential for disease to spread grows.

Images speak @ the ongoing three days PVS Strategic Planning Workshop for Nigeria, held in Abuja

Images speak @ the ongoing three days PVS  Strategic Planning Workshop for Nigeria, held in Abuja See more images below.

Consumers may be wasting more than twice as much food as commonly believed

Consumers are likely wasting much more food than commonly believed, according to a study published February 12, 2020 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Monika van den Bos Verma and colleagues from Wageningen University and Research, The Netherlands.

Earth formed much faster than previously thought, new study shows

The precursor of our planet, the proto-Earth, formed within a time span of approximately five million years, shows a new study from the Centre for Star and Planet Formation (StarPlan) at the Globe Institute at the University of Copenhagen.

Discovery at 'flower burial' site could unravel mystery of Neanderthal death rites

The first articulated Neanderthal skeleton to come out of the ground for over 20 years has been unearthed at one of the most important sites of mid-20th century archaeology: Shanidar Cave, in the foothills of Iraqi Kurdistan.

Pix @ 2 Day 4th Cassava Cottage Processing & Marketing Association (CACOPMA ) AGM meeting just concluded today 6th March at IAR&I Ibadan.

Pix @ 2 Day 4th Cassava Cottage Processing & Marketing Association (CACOPMA ) AGM meeting just concluded today 6th March at IAR&I Ibadan. see more images below..

Boost soybean yields by adapting photosynthesis to fleeting shadows, according to model

Komorebi is a Japanese word that describes how light filters through leaves -- creating shifting, dappled "sunflecks" that illustrate plants' ever-changing light environment.

Insect bites and warmer climate means double-trouble for plants

Recent models are telling us that, as our climate warms up, herbivores and pests will cause increased damage to agricultural crops. One study predicted that crop yield lost to insects increases 10 to 25 percent for every 1 degree Celsius increase.

Grain traits traced to 'dark matter' of rice genome

Domesticated rice has fatter seed grains with higher starch content than its wild rice relatives -- the result of many generations of preferential seed sorting and sowing. But even though rice was the first crop to be fully sequenced, scientists have only documented a few of the genetic changes that made rice into a staple food for more than half the world's population.

IAR will soon release Nigerian GMO maize

The preparation to mitigate shortage of maize supply in the country is under way as Institute for Agricultural Research (IAR) will soon release a genetically modified maize variety that is fall army worm and stem borer  resistant, with high yield potential for commercialization.