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August 09
Major discoveries
in maize genetics could lead to vigorous new varieties and
insights into human genetics
July 09
New tomato hybrids
are on the way - Seed companies put IPM researchers’ findings to
use
'Lab on a chip' to
give growers real-time glimpse into water stress in plants
April 09
Cornell University
researchers testing ways to biologically control alfalfa snout
beetles
February 09
Cornell University
coordinates breeders in race against time to save world's wheat
from deadly fungus
Cornell University Chronicle:
Bt eggplant
will soon be unveiled in India
January 09
DNA LandMarks
collaborates with Cornell University on completing a genetic map
of pepper
October 08
Cornell plant
experts identify Northeastern U.S. grasses that will fuel
bioenergy era
September 08
Cornell
University entomologist edits new book on sustainable pest
control
August 08
New Cornell
University institute focuses on invasive species
June 08
New Cornell
University study shows that transgenic plants don't hurt
beneficial bugs
April 08
Gates Foundation
awards Cornell $26.8 million to lead global fight against deadly
wheat plague
March 08
New Cornell
University research lab will produce ethanol and other biofuels
from grasses and biomass
Cornell partners
with Tamil Nadu Agricultural University of India to offer
innovative degree in food science
February 08
Ray Wu, Cornell
University's acclaimed pioneer of genetic engineering and
developer of insect-resistant rice, dies at 79
January 08
Cornell
University's web site hosts gardeners' ratings on thousands of
vegetable varieties
Genetic
discovery can boost the provitamin A content of Africa's maize
Cornell
University to share $5.5 million federal grant with Yale for
study of major cereal crops
Cornell
University research sheds light on the mechanics of gene
transcription
Cornell
University newly patented purplish 'lily' blooms all summer long
November 07
Cornell
University plant pathologists detect brown root rot, a
potentially serious forage crop disease, in the northeastern
United States
October 07
Cornell
University researchers identify natural herbicide that controls
weeds around some common lawn grasses
September 07
Cornell
University helps develop pest-resistant eggplant, the first
genetically modified food crop in South Asia
Cornell
University will support the University of Ghana to train African
plant breeders to confront indigenous problems
Studying grass
for energy needs
August 07
Cornell
University researchers clone aluminum-tolerance gene in sorghum,
promising boost to crop yields in developing world
Today's white
rice is mutation spread by early farmers, researchers say
July 07
In evolutionary
arms race, a bacterium is found that outwits tomato plant's
defenses, Cornell study finds
Effects of climate
change on U.S. agriculture
June 07
On-farm research
shows farmers can use less nitrogen to save money and reduce
environmental impact
Cornell University
researchers' discovery of what makes some cauliflower orange
could lead to more nutritious staple crops
April 07
Cornell University
researchers zero in on genes that turn a plant's ability to
self-pollinate on and off -- a potential boon for hybrids
February 07
Cornell
University students put marketing and management skills to work
for Kenya's seed industry
Cornell
University and the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research
receive $1.8 million from National Science Foundation to
continue tomato sequence project
December 06
Celebrating the past,
shaping the present, inspiring the future: The New York State
Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva turns 125 in 2007
September 06
Cornell University
researchers seek to extend growing season with high tunnels
August 06
Cornell University appoints
Kyle Arvin as director of the New York State Seed Testing Laboratory
July 06
Cornell University's
pest-alert network helps link attacks to changing climate
Seven-year glitch: Cornell
warns that Chinese GM cotton farmers are losing money due to secondary
pests
June 06
Historic mutant corn garden
grows at Cornell University
Tiny wasps help keep sweet
corn worm-free and customers more satisfied
April 06
Cornell University's
Vegetable Varieties for Gardeners website helps gardeners pick and
choose their varieties
February 06
Is genetically modified
food a risk or benefit? Americans are split but growing somewhat more
skeptical, study finds
Cornell students take
winter break and provide 'thousands of dollars' of advice and help to
Tanzanian seed companies
January 06
Business training
offered for agricultural entrepreneurs
Cornell University
geneticists improve methods for identifying what controls complex
traits, from disease to crop yields
December 05
Cornell University and
Indian Council of Agricultural Research sign new agreement for
agricultural development
November 05
Biofortified, iron-rich
rice improves the nutrition of women, study by Cornell researcher shows
for the first time
October 05
Cornell University signs
research agreement with Japan's genome research institute
Cornell University's
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences launches online research portal
September 05
Cornell University
tapped for regional Sun Grant hub to use $8 million in U.S. funds to
spearhead next green revolution
Michael P. Hoffmann
names director of the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
Cornell University
releases "Resource Guide for Organic Insect and Disease Management"
August 05
Students use summer internships at Cornell University to test desire to
become plant researchers
July 05
Cornell University works to improve organic farming methods in a
multitude of ways
Organic farming produces same corn and soybean yields as conventional
farms, but consumes less energy and no pesticides, study finds
Cornell University study finds that producing ethanol and biodiesel from
corn and other crops is not worth the energy
June 05
Insects develop resistance to engineered crops when single- and
double-gene altered plants are in proximity, Cornell University
researchers say
March 05
Grass makes
environmentally friendly biofuel
December 04
Organic food research
at Cornell University boosted by $1.99 million in U.S. Department of
Agriculture grants
Spring in the U.S.
Northeast arrives a week earlier than 40 years ago due to greenhouse-gas
warming trend, finds Cornell University study
Homeowners in the
Northwestern U.S. asked to look for Asian stink bugs, invasive pest that
is threat to fruit and soybean crops
October 04
Environmentally
conscious agricultural practices by U.S. farmers would ease drain on
world water supply, Cornell ecologists report
Cornell University
researchers find some onions do indeed have excellent anti-cancer
benefits
September 04
Biologists finally
close in on 'florigen,' the signal that causes plants to flower
U.S. National Science
Foundation awards $4.2 million to Cornell University to sequence the
tomato genome
July 04
U.S.$3 million for Cornell
University Crop Genomics Center added to US House of Representatives
bill
June 04
Cornell University's Mann
Library gets federal grant to preserve historical agricultural
literature on microfilm and the Web
April 04
Orange cauliflower
developed at Cornell's Experiment Station is high in vitamin A
March 04
Cornell University and
Stanford University to work with Israel and Jordan on Bridging the Rift
research center to include world's first databank for all living systems
February 04
Cornell plant breeders
slice through onion's sexual barrier to breed disease resistance into
crop
December 03
Researchers find plant
immune system's 'take two aspirin' gene, offering hope for disease
control without agricultural pesticides
November 03
Cornell University group
to assess global agricultural and environmental land-management
practices for U.S. development agency
Cornell
entomologists demonstrate better insect control with novel technique of
"gene pyramiding"
New York State
Agricultural Experiment Station
increases its
capacity for field research
October 03
Agriculture Internet
portal to aid the Third World, developed at Cornell's Mann Library, is
unveiled by United Nations at ceremony in Rome
Director to leave New
York State Agricultural Experiment Station January 1, 2004
September 03
Cornell University
shares in $4.3 million award for Northeastern Integrated Pest Management
Center; continues winning partnership with Penn State University
Global economic
pressure creates uncertainties for U.S. agriculture, Cornell researchers
say in white paper
August 03
Despite benefits of
golden rice to vitamin A-deficient children, few Filipino farmers know
about it, says Cornell researcher
Recent poll of New Yorkers
shows them evenly split on the use of biotechnology in food and
agriculture
Pseudomonas syringae
sequenced, providing hope for new defenses in plant and possibly human
disease, says Cornell researcher
May 03
Discovery of critical
early-defense trigger in plants could lead to improved disease control,
say scientists at Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research and
Cornell University
Fruit, vegetable and herb
dehydration - All dried up
April 03
World Food Symposium at
Cornell University
March 03
New plant pathologist at
Cornell University
Engineering rice plants
with trehalose-producing genes improves tolerance to drought, salt and
low temperature
Cornell University
establishes agricultural research initiative with Vietnam
After 20 years' absence,
newly fungus-resistant trefoil gives New York farmers low-cost forage
fields of dreams
February 03
New York farmers brace
for an invasion of the swede midge, a little fly that could cause
extensive crop damage
January 03
New agricultural
biotechnology publication available from Cornell
November 02
Engineering rice plants
with sugar-producing gene helps them tolerate drought, salt and low
temperatures, Cornell biologists report
October 02
Alan Lakso to
chair Horticultural Sciences Department at New York State Agricultural
Experiment Station, in Geneva
Daniel C. Peck to lead
Cornell University's turf grass entomology program
Cornell University leads
a consortium of public and private sector institutions to implement the
Agricultural Biotechnology Support Project II
Tiny plant poised to
yield big payoffs in environment and energy as Boyce Thompson Institute
reveals key genome sequence
September 02
Cornell
University receives $345,000 from New York State for agricultural
research
To Russia with
love: CU delegation delivers new potato varieties, and hope
August 02
Public Seed Initiative
Field Day to be held September 5 near Cornell University
Cornell-bred, late
blight-resistant potato to be given to Russian producer to help small
farmers combat disease
July 02
Plant pathologist Dennis Gonsalves and his research team to receive the
prestigious 2002 von Humboldt Award for Agriculture
Gene discovery in petunias could boost yield of hybrid food crops,
Cornell plant scientists predict
June 02
Chang Yong Lee
appointed chairman of Cornell University's Food Science &
Technology Department at Geneva
April 02
Cornell University
Professor Dennis Gonsalves named director of USDA's Agricultural
Research Service Pacific Basin Agricultural Research Center
March 02
Governor Patakis
announces 200 new jobs at the Cornell Agriculture & Food Technology Park
February 02
Cornell entomologist
uses 'cotton candy' to protect crops as maggots and worms develop
resistance to pesticides
Vegetable disease expert
Tom Zitter wins IPM Award at the New York State Vegetable Growers
Conference
January 02
Greenhouse grower wins
Excellence in Integrated Pest Management Award
December 01
$1.2 million USDA
grant aids creation of Cornell-managed group to study Northeast organic
food production
Cornell hosts first
U.S.-South Korea Joint Seminar on Plant Molecular Genetics and Breeding,
Dec. 11-12
October 01
Cornell delicata
squash, disease-resistant version of heirloom winter variety, named 2002
All-America Selection
(3904)
Cornell University
horticulturist made Fellow in American Society for Horticultural Science
Marc Smith appointed
Assistant Director at New York State Ag Experiment Station
September 01
Thomas Burr to chair
plant pathology department at Cornell University's New York State
Agricultural Experiment Station
The mystery of
cell-cell communication in the flower is unlocked by Cornell plant
biologists
August 01
Cornell's Mann
Library sells its 50th 'library-in-a-box' to the developing world
Bacterial wilt that
kills pumpkins, cucumbers, cantaloupes and squash found in parts of
Midwest and Northeast, says Cornell plant pathologist
Ethanol fuel from
corn faulted as 'unsustainable subsidized food burning' in analysis by
Cornell scientist
July 01
Cornell provides
consumers "science-based" information on genetically engineered foods
Soybean aphids, a
potential agricultural threat, found by Cornell entomologists in New
York state
Plants' battle
against disease is 'trench warfare at the molecular level,' BTI and
Cornell scientists discover
New York State
Agricultural Experiment Station appoints genomicist
June 01
Cornell-bred,
blight-resistant potato variety -- New York 121 -- is sent to Russia for
testing to stave off potato crisis
May
01
Growing
tomatoes using a trellis
April
01
Vegetable
entomologist joins New York State Agricultural Experiment Station
March
01
Size matters: Cornell researcher finds evidence of fourth spatial dimension
in plant world
Michael
G. Villani receives Outstanding Service Award of the Turfgrass Council
of North Carolina
New
York State Cabbage Research & Development Program awards 2001
funding for eight cabbage research proposals
February
01
New
York State vegetable value and production is way up
January
01
Cornell's Mann Library unveils web site that features complete texts of
rare, significant agricultural books
Vegetable MD Online web site from Cornell provides facts and
information about vegetable diseases
December
00
Humble mustard plant reveals evidence of ancient origins, bringing
hope of easier genetic mapping of major crops
November
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Corn borer damage can be halved by releasing army of wasps early and
just once, says Cornell research report
October
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Cornell to host conference on agricultural biotechnology and genetically
modified organisms
September
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Cornell's New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva,
NY hosts educational tours on GMOs
August
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A threatened St. John's
Wort plant could be more effective as an
anti-depressant, Cornell and USDA researchers find
July
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Cornell and Polish research scientists lead effort to save invaluable
potato genetic archive in Russia
Cancer cell growth appears related to evolutionary development of plump
fruits and vegetables, Cornell researchers find
For first time scientists trigger human immunity to a virus using a
plant-based, edible vaccine
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