by Mary Catherine Gaston | Apr 3, 2014 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Animal Sciences
by NATHAN KELLY and JAMIE CREAMER A simple, economical tool that could be used to detect and identify harmful bacteria on food products in minutes instead of days and could significantly reduce the incidence of foodborne illnesses in the U.S. and beyond is in the...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Mar 29, 2014 | School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
Auburn Fisheries Pioneer Explains Why Alabama Agriculture Can’t Catch Up by JAMIE CREAMER Sisyphus was a cruel, conniving mythological king of Corinth whose ultimate punishment was an eternity in Hades, pushing a large boulder up a hill, watching it roll back down as...
by William Cahalin | Feb 26, 2014 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Biosystems Engineering
AUBURN, Ala.—Sushil Adhikari, an Auburn University biosystems engineering associate professor and Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station scientist, is conducting research with the potential to impact the state’s economy dramatically. Through a process known as...
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, 2013 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Biosystems Engineering
AUBURN, Ala.—A wearable computer described as “a smartphone for your face” has the potential to help row-crop farmers operate more efficiently and profitably, two Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station researchers at Auburn University say. Greg Pate and John Fulton...
by William Cahalin | Oct 7, 2013 | Biosystems Engineering
AUBURN, Ala.—A two-week, tri-state road show highlighting the advances that a regional bioenergy research partnership in the Southeast has made in its first two years will wrap up Saturday, Oct. 12, in Auburn and will be set up at Ag Heritage Park from 9 a.m. to noon...