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(In Defense of Plants-podcast) How Plants Fight Disease
December 4, 2020
From plant conservation to food security, we desperately need to understand how plants fight disease. As you can probably imagine, the world of plant-microbe interactions […]
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(STL Magazine) Changing the face of farming with drones
November 16, 2020
Several years ago, Nadia Shakoor went looking for something that didn’t exist. As a breeding and genetics researcher at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, […]
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Startup partners with Danforth Center to develop fungal resistant soybeans
November 16, 2020
“Fungal diseases are a major threat to soybean production, causing more than $4 billion of crop losses per year in the U.S. alone,” Jeffrey Staub, […]
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(AgFunder) What 2020 has taught the agrifood sector: resilience
November 12, 2020
If there is anything the world has learned from the pandemic about the future of food it’s that food chains need to be more resilient. […]
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(AgriNews) What works? Ag technology that’s the right fit for your farm
November 12, 2020
A myriad of new agriculture technology hits the marketplace on a regular basis and selecting which ones best fit the farm from a return on […]
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(Successful Farming) Pandemic Challenges Food System to Have Emergency Plans
November 12, 2020
There have been a lot of political discussions going on for months, and when you write about agricultural policies and procedures, you are typically going […]
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