Biology
-
The World Needs a Global System to Detect and Halt the Spread of Emerging Crop Diseases
More than 20 percent of the five staple crops that provide half the globe's caloric intake is lost to pests each year. Climate change and global trade drive the spread, emergence, and re-emergence of crop disease, and containment action is often inefficient, especially in low-income countries.
Latest Research Articles
-
A New Normal: Study Explains Universal Pattern in Fossil Record
-
Crop Pests More Widespread than Previously Known
-
'Flying Salt Shakers of Death:' Fungal-Infected Zombie Cicadas, Explained by WVU Research
-
Widely Available Antibiotics Could be Used in the Treatment of 'Superbug' MRSA
-
Study: Phenols in Cocoa Bean Shells may Reverse Obesity-Related Problems in Mouse Cells
-
'Sneezing' Plants Contribute to Disease Proliferation
-
From Sheep and Cattle to Giraffes, Genome Study Reveals Evolution of Ruminants
-
Spiders Risk Everything for Love
-
Slime Travelers
-
Archaeology -- What the Celts drank
-
Scientists Challenge Notion of Binary Sexuality with Naming of New Plant Species
-
Egg-sucking Sea Slug From Florida's Cedar Key Named After Muppets Creator Jim Henson