GAINESVILLE—Close to 2,000 tiny transgenic predator mites that feed on agricultural pests were released at a secured area on the University of Florida campus Thursday, marking the first time a genetically altered arthropod has been… Read More
GAINESVILLE—Educating the boaters on Florida’s crowded waterways will do more to preserve the fragile coastal ecosystem than regulating boaters, according to a study by a University of Florida researcher. The study found boaters care about… Read More
GAINESVILLE—Petrossian, Beluga…Panhandle? Florida could one day be the next best source for caviar. Scientists at the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences say sturgeon, those prehistoric fish that once thrived in Florida’s… Read More
HOMESTEAD—They were around for the real Jurassic Park, Stone Age plants called cycads that likely fed the herbivorous dinosaurs millions of years ago. Just like the venerable cockroach, these prehistoric plants that look like squat… Read More
GAINESVILLE—Florida’s wetlands already have enough pressure from pollution and other byproducts of development. But now comes an exotic weed that could threaten the fragile biological diversity of many of these marshy refuges. University of Florida… Read More
GAINESVILLE—Florida tomato farmers are again under siege by Mexican growers who are dumping record numbers of winter tomatoes on the U.S. market, driving prices down and violating quotas set forth in NAFTA, says a University… Read More
GAINESVILLE—A University of Florida researcher has tracked down a mutant gene responsible for thwarting the ripening of a tomato — thereby raising hopes for the widespread manipulation of ripening in numerous fruits, vegetables and flowers…. Read More
