Agriculture
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Blending art, agriculture and governance at Oxford
University of MichiganGrant and Award Announcement
University of Michigan student Yumna Dagher has been named a 2025 Rhodes Scholar, one of 32 Americans chosen to win scholarships to Oxford University.
Joining forces above and below ground to tackle nitrogen pollution
Aarhus UniversityEnhancing genomic prediction accuracy of swine agricultural economic traits in CNN models
KeAi Communications Co., Ltd.Peer-Reviewed Publication
The CNN model achieved the highest genomic prediction accuracy for swine traits when using SNP sets comprising 1,000 markers. A novel one-hot encoding strategy representing 16 genotypes with eight binary variables significantly outperformed traditional encoding methods in CNN-based prediction. The improved CNN framework offers a powerful tool for enhancing genomic prediction accuracy, providing valuable support for data-driven swine breeding programs.
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- Journal of Integrative Agriculture
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China, National Key Scientific Research Project, Shenzhen Innovation and Entrepreneurship Plan-Major Special Project of Science and Technology, China, Innovation Project of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
Maps created by 1960s schoolchildren provide new insights into habitat losses
UK Centre for Ecology & HydrologyPeer-Reviewed Publication
A new study of 1960s maps, many of which were created by young people, has provided important fresh evidence of the timing and extent of habitat losses caused by agricultural intensification and urban growth in England and Wales.
Prior to the analysis by the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH), there were gaps in understanding about how our landscape gradually changed in the intervening years between the 1930s and 1990.
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- Landscape Ecology
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- Natural Environment Research Council
Seeing beyond the visible: Researchers turn everyday cameras into crop analysis tools
University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental SciencesPeer-Reviewed Publication
In two new papers, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign explore the reconstruction of multispectral and hyperspectral images from RGB for chemical analysis of sweet potatoes and maize.
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- Computers and Electronics in Agriculture
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- USDA Agricultural Marketing Service
How does a parasitic nematode infect a wide variety of plants?
University of California - DavisPeer-Reviewed Publication
Nematologists have long wondered how the the Northern root-knot nematode (Meloidogyne hapla) is able to infect such a wide range of plants, from carrots to trees. Now an international team has gained insight into how the DNA of this parasitic worm facilitates its success.
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- PLOS Pathogens
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- U.S. National Science Foundation, Dutch Research Council