April 2, 2024
Cultivating the future: Agricultural innovations for climate resilience
December 15, 2023
Maryland rebuilding its wheat breeding program (Lancaster Farming)
August 3, 2023
University of Maryland researchers sequence genome of einkorn wheat, the world’s first farmed crop - Ancient wheat could safeguard global food supply by boosting drought, disease resistance of modern strains
November 15, 2022
Honey bee lifespans are 50% shorter today than they were 50 years ago
November 11, 2022
Safeguarding a crop to feed the future - Researchers work with wheat to increase disease, pest resistance
September 27, 2022
Minimizing combine weed-seed movement
Research aims to improve understanding of crops that can replace fossil fuels and petroleum products
August 18, 2022
New generation of CRISPR is able to multi-task (The Western Producer)
July 13, 2022
University of Maryland scientists identify mechanism responsible for fruit and seed development in flowering plants - This research could allow agriculturists to optimize productivity and explore the viability of ‘virgin fruits'
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scientists identify mechanism responsible for fruit and seed development in flowering plants - This research could allow agriculturists to optimize productivity and explore the viability of ‘virgin fruits'
June 22, 2022
Cold Plasma Newsletter 1/1 - Enhancement of specialty crop seed germination, seedling vigor, and pest management using cold plasma technology
May 23, 2022
University of Maryland researchers develop the latest advances to CRISPR with a method to edit and regulate multiple genes simultaneously
March 2, 2022
University of Maryland researcher receives $800K grant to lead an international plant breeding partnership - The researchers aim to identify pathogen-resistant genes in wild wheat and breed them into domestic varieties in the U.S. and other major wheat producing nations
February 28, 2022
Making ‘superfoods’ prove it - University of Maryland, USDA researchers document high nutrient levels in microgreens
October 4, 2021
Hemp program at University of Maryland Eastern Shore brings next step in the agriculture industry (WMDT)
September 9, 2021
University of Maryland researcher leads new FFAR grant to speed development of enhanced crops - Researchers will upgrade conventional CRISPR genome editing systems to introduce CRISPR-Combo systems that can perform multiple functions
August 2, 2021
University of Maryland Associate Professor receives new funding to expand CRISPR-Cas12a genome editing technologies and continue the search for novel variants - Research aims to develop a genome editing pipeline in carrots and screen for new CRISPR systems
June 24, 2021
University of Maryland Associate Professor Yiping Qi introduces new CRISPR 3.0 system for highly efficient gene activation in plants
U.S. beekeepers continue to report high colony loss rates, no clear progression toward improvement
April 1, 2021
University of Maryland helps quantify how climate change has slowed global agricultural productivity growth - Collaborative research shows more severe slowdowns in warmer regions like Africa and Latin America
March 29, 2021
University of Maryland reports six novel variants for CRISPR-Cas12a in plants, expanding genome engineering - New publication in Nature Communications offers patentable tools to improve the efficiency of food production
March 18, 2021
University of Maryland co-publishes the first full reference genome for rye - Reference genome provides an invaluable resource for crop improvement across wheat, barley, triticale, and rye
January 22, 2021
University of Maryland Associate Professor expands plant genome editing potential with a newly engineered variant of CRISPR-Cas9 - New Nature Plants study introduces SpRY to enable the mutation of nearly any genomic sequence in plants
November 6, 2020
University of Maryland Associate Professor receives new funding to enhance CRISPR tools in plants while training future leaders in plant biology
October 19, 2020
University of Maryland Eastern Shore to host virtual Industrial Hemp Conference on November 5
August 14, 2020
University of Maryland discovers a new role for a well-known molecule as a plant hormone - Findings have implications for seed production and crop yield and could help rewrite textbooks, translating to practical applications for plant reproduction
August 7, 2020
University of Maryland assistant professor receives USDA/NIFA grant to develop new genetic techniques to incorporate natural variations in wheat breeding
July 23, 2020
University of Maryland researcher highlights trends in consolidation of US agriculture with 35 years of data - Data show a steady shift to fewer and larger farming operations across crops, dairy, and livestock
June 22, 2020
U.S. beekeepers reported lower winter losses but abnormally high summer losses
May 22, 2020
Assistant Professor puts the University of Maryland's small grains breeding and genetics program on the map, receiving Leadership Award from the International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium for his contributions to wheat genomics
April 16, 2020
University of Maryland researchers find that incentive-based tariffs aren't the way to control invasive pests
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