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...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Sep 6, 2013 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Entomology & Plant Pathology
by JAMIE CREAMER Two key research breakthroughs at Auburn University over the summer could prove valuable weapons in the frustrating battle against the rapidly spreading, crop-destroying kudzu bug, and both are in the form of native insects that prey on the invasive...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Aug 29, 2013 | Poultry Science
by JAMIE CREAMER 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 plasma enzyme that could give breeders a noninvasive...
