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Liberals and conservatives may agree on at least one thing: the importance of working hard in order to succeed. According to new Cornell-led research exploring the foundations of morality, liberals and Democrats are far more inclined than...
  • Current Graduate Student
  • Faculty
  • Media
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Cornell and China’s Hebei Qimei Agriculture Science and Technology Co. Ltd., an organic food group, signed an agreement in June to collaborate on microbial food safety research. The agreement was funded by a three-year, $2.5 million grant from...
  • Faculty
  • Industry
  • Researcher
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With New York state’s $20 million berry industry entering peak season, an invasive fruit fly is thriving. Female spotted-wing drosophila (Drosophila suzukii Matsumura) have a special ovipositor (a tube through which a female insect deposits eggs...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Department of Entomology
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How Grapevine Roots Grow Compared to the above-ground portions of a grapevine, root structure and function is more of a mystery to most growers. Roots extract nutrients and water from the soil, and are also the dominant storage organ for...
  • Food Science
  • Viticulture and Enology
  • Food
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The 2018 Farm Bill changed federal policy regarding industrial hemp, including the removal of hemp from the Controlled Substances Act and the consideration of hemp as an agricultural product. The change created an agricultural opportunity...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plants
  • Horticulture
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For the last seven decades, Cornell University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) has been leading the fight against nematodes—invasive, microscopic worms that can destroy seasons’ worth of crops. However, researchers had been...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Agriculture
  • Organisms
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Over recent decades, many commercially harvested fish have grown slower and matured earlier, which can translate into lower yields and a reduced resilience to overexploitation. Scientists have long suspected that rapid evolutionary change in...
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • Animals
  • Genomics

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A new study reveals how water-use policies require farmers to transplant rice later in the year, which in turn delays harvests and concentrates agricultural burnings of crop residues in November, a month when breezes stagnate, leading to...

  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section
  • Agriculture
  • Health + Nutrition
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“We’re thrilled to have developed this articulation agreement with Cornell University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences,” said School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences Founding Dean Gloria Meredith. “This agreement builds on the...

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A half-mile snippet of Albro Road, a sleepy byway in Sherburne, New York, 36 miles south of Utica, had severe cracks in its pavement. They made for a teeth-chattering ride. “I don’t think you’d want to have an open coffee cup in your hand on...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Applied Economics
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In New York, apples are big business: the state’s 600 commercial growers produce an average of 30 million bushels annually, making it the second-largest apple producer in the U.S. But growing apples isn’t easy, and much has changed since Cornell...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Horticulture Section
  • Plants
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ClimateXChange, Scotland’s research center that connects climate change research to policy, enlisted Danielle Eiseman, Cornell visiting lecturer in communication, and Iain Black, professor of sustainable consumption at the University of Stirling...
  • Department of Communication
  • Climate Change
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A paper published in the journal Frontiers in Microbiology on July 12 – co-authored by researchers from Cornell and the Mars Global Food Safety Center (GFSC), Beijing – illuminates breakthroughs. “Salmonella is the foodborne pathogen with the...
  • Food Science
  • Global Development
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As described in research published in May in the Journal of Phytopathology, these compounds helped protect major crops from various pathogens, and have the potential to save billions of dollars and increase global agricultural sustainability...
  • Boyce Thompson Institute
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
  • Plants
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A global alliance of countries and research institutions, including Cornell, committed to sharing plant genetic material, has secured food access for billions of people, but a patchwork of legal restrictions threatens humanity’s ability to feed...
  • International Programs
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
  • Global Development
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“It’s the most progressive legislation designed to avert climate change that any state has put out there,” said Howarth, the David R. Atkinson Professor of Ecology and Environmental Biology. The New York State Senate and the Assembly passed the...
  • Horticulture Section
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Energy
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As Gov. Andrew Cuomo was preparing to sign the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act into law, which he did July 18, researchers, policymakers and industry members gathered at Cornell’s pyrolysis facility in Leland Laboratory to...
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section
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Northern leaf blight – a devastating fungal disease of maize – often begins where farmers can’t easily detect it, far beneath the plants’ dense canopy. But a ground rover exploring the plants from below, in communication with an airborne drone...
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
  • Agriculture
  • Digital Agriculture
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Broccoli is in the eye of the beholder. A head of broccoli that might appeal to one person – perhaps because of its deep green color – may leave another cold, due to an asymmetrical shape or too-large buds. Cornell researchers participating in...
  • Faculty
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Plants
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Marine ecologist Drew Harvell was a University of Washington doctoral student in zoology in 1982 when she went on a research trip off Panama’s western coast with one of the world’s foremost experts in the biology of coral reefs. Then twenty-six...
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Animals
  • Biology