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Plant pathogens can hitch rides on dust and remain viable, with the potential for traveling across the planet to infect areas far afield, a finding with important implications for global food security and for predicting future outbreaks.

Cornell AgriTech’s Summer Research Scholars Program provides hands-on research experience for undergraduate students. The goal of the program is simple but impactful: to excite students about careers in agriculture and food science. Now in its...

Fungal biologist Lori Huberman will use a $1.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study how fungi sense and use nutrients, basic research with potential applications for treatment of cancer, obesity, Type 2 diabetes and...

Kathleen Kanaley is a second-year Ph.D. student working in the lab of Katie Gold , professor of plant pathology and plant-microbe biology at Cornell AgriTech . Originally from San Francisco, Kathleen came to Cornell AgriTech after receiving her...

For more than 50 years, NASA and partner agencies have used satellite imagery to map agriculture worldwide with an eye toward global supply and food security. That technology, however, has largely focused on commodity and row crops. Until now...

Christine Smart , a crop pathologist known for her leadership in protecting the health of specialty crops across New York state, has been appointed the Goichman Family Director of Cornell AgriTech , effective Oct. 1. Olga Padilla-Zakour will...

The Borlaug Global Rust Initiative announced the 2023 Jeanie Borlaug Laube Women in Triticum (WIT) Early Career and Mentor awardees in recognition of excellence in science and leadership for a wheat-secure future.

Growing up on his family’s vegetable farm in central Minnesota, Eric Branch had many positive interactions with extension programs, and this eventually led him to pursue extension as a career. Drawn by Cornell AgriTech’s long history of...

Ryan Maher, a research, extension, and soil health specialist for the Cornell Small Farms Program since 2013, has assumed a new leadership position as Organic Coordinator for the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station ( Cornell AES)...

Farmers, brewers, distillers and researchers gathered for the sixth annual Empire State Barley and Malt Summit, to celebrate successes and plan for the future of New York’s growing craft brewery and distillery industries.

Cornell AgriTech is leading a multidisciplinary research project to increase the sustainability of the organic dry bean industry in the Northeast and upper Midwest by overcoming production challenges while developing improved management...

Nominations are now being accepted for the 2023 Jeanie Borlaug Laube Women in Triticum (WIT) awards honoring exceptional early-career women scientists and mentors working in wheat.

Steven Vincent Beer, professor emeritus of plant pathology who made pathbreaking discoveries about plant immunity to bacterial disease, died Jan. 12.

CIMMYT and Cornell University are offering an innovative online course to empower global scientists with the most advanced training in wheat improvement.

A team of researchers has assembled a reference genome for Solanum lycopersicoides, a wild relative of the cultivated tomato, and developed web-based tools to help plant researchers and breeders improve the crop.

After working in the field with New York state growers, Heck, a postdoctoral associate from Brazil working in the lab of Sarah Pethybridge , associate professor of plant pathology and plant-microbe biology, said one challenge was that too many...

Fernando Romero Galvan is a first-year Ph.D. student working in the lab of Katie Gold, assistant professor of plant pathology and plant-microbe biology. The first student in the School of Integrative Plant Science to receive NASA’s FINESST (...