Click for high-resolution image GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Maria Gallo, a molecular genetics professor, has been named chairman of the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences’ agronomy department. Jack Payne, UF’s ... READ MORE
Category: Crops, UF/IFASCaption at bottom. Click here for high resolution image. GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- The University of Florida has secured a four-year, $7.9 million award to lead a unique new collaboration among experts in the U.S. and Brazil to improve agriculture ... READ MORE
Category: Crops, UF/IFASGAINESVILLE, Fla. -- Most people wouldn’t be inclined to show a passion for insects, but in a state that is home to several major seaports and provides a year-round climate where, on the average, a new species of insect is introduced each ... READ MORE
Category: Pests & Disease, UF/IFASGAINESVILLE, Fla. --- A University of Florida-led group of international scientists has assembled the genome sequences for two citrus varieties—sweet orange and Clementine mandarin—marking a first for citrus. The Clementine mandarin sequence ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, UF/IFASGAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Tiny threatened shorebirds on Florida’s west coast not only survive hurricanes, they seem to benefit from the storms’ aftereffects, according to new research findings that contradict conventional wisdom. The findings ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, ConservationCaption at bottom. Click for high-resolution image. GAINESVILLE, Fla. — An international team of scientists led by the University of Florida and Virginia Tech is the first to publish the DNA sequence for the strawberry — a development ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, Crops, UF/IFASVause’s are 2010 Farm Family of the Year for Wakulla The Wakulla News by Jennifer Raymond The 2010 Farm Family: D.R. “Pee Wee” Vause with wife Dalynda and daughter Leah. “I was really surprised and also honored,” Vause says. “Family ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, Farm ManagementClick here for full image. Caption at end of story. GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Roseville Farms owner David Raab grew up in the nursery industry. Over the years, he said, he’s seen the business evolve from plants in the ground to a highly technical ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, UF/IFASClick for full image. Caption at end of story. GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- For hundreds of years, farmers in Brazil’s Amazon Basin have hunted through dense jungles for what is called “terra preta” -- mysterious plots of super-fertile black ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, Conservation, Invasive Species, Work & LifePicture of Florida panther courtesy of Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- In 1995, conservation managers made a desperate bid to save the Florida panther from extinction and released eight female pumas ... READ MORE
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