By observing the battle between bacterial speck disease and tomatoes, biologists have discovered how plant cells resist some ailments. Researchers from the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research Inc. and Cornell can now demonstrate how disease-causing organisms deliver destructive agents to plants, and how the plants fight back.
For many dairy cows, summertime living isn't easy. In the northeastern United States, heat stress can make the animals more susceptible to mastitis, laminitis and acidosis. It can also adversely affect the growth rates of unborn calves and reduce a cow's capacity to make milk by as much as one-third.
The human hepatitis C virus is a target of drug-discovery research by a Cornell scientist and an Ithaca company, among the latest recipients of support from the New York Science, Technology and Academic Research program.
The long-term health benefits to Chinese and other Asian people who have traditionally existed on a primarily plant-based diet might be lost as more people in Asia switch to a Western-style diet that is rich in animal-based foods.
Russia is teetering on the brink of a large-scale potato crisis ignited by the same virulent, fungal-like pathogen, Phytophthora infestans, more commonly called late blight, that was responsible for the 19th century Irish potato famine.
Cornell food science students have developed a mocha-flavored, chocolate- coated snack that uses an unusual ingredient: whey. The students call their concoction Café Crunch, and the product has won the $5,000 top prize at the Dairy Management Inc.'s annual Discoveries in Dairy Ingredients contest.
In a war against the European corn borer, a major pest of sweet corn, Cornell scientists have found that an army of tiny wasps, released just once and early in the season, can reduce damage to ears of corn by half.
The annual Cornell Agribusiness Economic Outlook Conference will be held Tuesday, Dec. 12, from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. hosted by Cornell's Department of Applied Economics and Management.
