Category: 3 – Issue
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Posted on March 25, 2010
Australia: Plant Scientists Nip a Costly Fungus in the Bud
Team of scientists saves Australian flower from fungal pathogens.
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Russia: For Saiga Antelope, A Reason to Smile
Saiga antelopes of southern Russia are dwindling in number, and one CALS professor is trying to stop it.
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Iraq: Rebuilding Iraq’s Farms from Ground and Sky
An alum and a professor make a trans-Atlantic connection to get the war-torn nation’s farms back on track.
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How to make a carrot purple
How to get the colors of the rainbow and beta-carotene all in one.
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Class Act: Sheri Nelson BS’09 and Clean Water . . . One Sip at a Time
Clean Water … One Sip at a Time
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New Collagen: Better than Nature?
FOR DECADES, DOCTORS HAVE USED COLLAGEN FROM COWS to treat arthritis, severe burns and other ailments that result from a breakdown of the body’s natural collagen. […]
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Speed Reading
A DECADE AGO, CALS GENETICS researchers Nicole Perna and Jeremy Glasner were part of the team that sequenced the genome of the bacterium E. coli, at […]
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Life on the Edge
Restoring grass may not be enough to help grassland birds
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Rural Route
Scholarship fund fills growing gap in student aid.
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The Experience of Food
Pablo Neruda, the great Chilean poet, wrote that the tomato enters the kitchen and “takes its ease on countertops, among glasses, butter dishes, blue saltcellars. […]
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Posted on March 23, 2010
Fixing Our Food: Get Back in the Kitchen
The skill to cook good food is rapidly disappearing in the average American family. Can we get it back? Yes–but not by watching food network.
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Fixing Our Food: Eat Less
Want to preserve the world’s food supply? Start by limiting your own. It just might save your life.