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by Paul Hollis | Feb 15, 2016 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Biosystems Engineering, COA Administration, COA Communications, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, Entomology & Plant Pathology
Part 1 by PAUL HOLLIS “How high can crop yields go? Researchers at Auburn University’s Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station intend to find out just that with a new initiative that aims to replicate the outstanding yields being achieved by some of the nation’s top...
by Jamie Creamer | May 6, 2015 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Entomology & Plant Pathology
Jeff Coleman, a mycologist in Auburn University’s Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, has been awarded a $268,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to identify and study the genes within two species of fungi that can cause potentially deadly...
by William Cahalin | Dec 18, 2013 | Entomology & Plant Pathology, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
AUBURN, Ala.—A team of Auburn University College of Agriculture researchers studying the development of biofilm formed in aquaculture settings by the highly contagious fish pathogen Flavobacterium columnare has taken the first-ever microscopic image of the biofilm—a...
by William Cahalin | Oct 18, 2013 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Poultry Science
AUBURN, Ala.—After more than a decade of research into an increasingly common and costly broiler condition known as green muscle disease, a team of poultry scientists at Auburn University has identified a blood enzyme that could give breeders a noninvasive tool to...
by William Cahalin | Oct 15, 2012 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station
AUBURN, Ala.—Greenhouse tours, a presentation on permeable pavements and hands-on activities will be part of the lineup when the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station’s Plant Science Research Center hosts an open house and rainwater-gardening class Tuesday, Oct. 30,...
by William Cahalin | Apr 17, 2012 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Animal Sciences
AUBURN Ala.—A curly-haired, morbidly obese, genetically primitive breed of Hungarian pig that until recently was on the brink of extinction could be key to the eventual prevention of diabetes and heart disease in humans, Auburn University researchers contend. The...
by William Cahalin | Feb 15, 2012 | School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
AUBURN, Ala.—The April 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the waves of tar balls deposited on the beaches shortly thereafter prompted the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to produce a tar ball fact sheet. Among the factoids was...
