UF/IFAS Horticultural Sciences chairman Kevin Folta will advise the Pennsylvania House of Representatives’ Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee Monday, Oct. 6 on the use of transgenic crops, or GMOs. The committee will have an informational ... READ MORE
Category: UF/IFAS
GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Kevin Folta, the interim chair of the University of Florida’s horticultural sciences department, has accepted the permanent job, Jack Payne, UF’s senior vice president for agricultural and natural resources, announced ... READ MORE
Category: UF/IFAS
GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- There’s an old head-scratcher that asks whether the refrigerator light really goes out when you close the door. The answer may be about to change. Scientists have known for hundreds of years that plants respond to ... READ MORE
Category: UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS ResearchCaption 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/IFAS