President Martha E. Pollack shared her thoughts March 17 on the many challenges Cornellians are facing around the world due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Cornell President Martha E. Pollack announced that all classes on the Ithaca campus will be suspended for three weeks effective March 13 at 5 p.m. Virtual instruction will begin April 6. Students are strongly encouraged to return to their permanent home residences as soon as feasible.
As plants try to strengthen their defenses against nematodes, those parasites try to outsmart them. New research shows that nematode species that move from plant to plant cause more than mechanical damage.
Researchers from Cornell and Pennsylvania State University are developing a high-tech, portable imaging system that will increase profits and yields by making winter grapevine pruning more efficient.
Cornell AgriTech researchers are tackling a form of onion leaf blight that recently has affected 75% of New York state onion crops, a $44.7 million industry.
Cornell researchers have determined that a hemp plant’s propensity to “go hot” – become too high in THC – is determined by genetics, not as a stress response to growing conditions.
Transferring genetic markers in plant breeding is a challenge, but a team of grapevine breeders and scientists at Cornell AgriTech in Geneva, New York, has come up with a powerful new method.
