Dr. Fredy Altpeter to Be Presented the 2020 Distinguished Scientist Award
Dr. Fredy Altpeter, professor of agronomy at UF/IFAS, will be awarded the 2020 Distinguished Scientist Award at the World Congress on In... Read More
A Burp Could Improve Climate Crisis
Nicolas DiLorenzo bottles cow burps and measures them for methane. That’s not as low-brow as it sounds. Cows’ role as greenhouse gas... Read More
Viruses Might Help As Biocontrol on Asian Citrus Psyllids
University of Florida scientists are working toward establishing a new biological method that may help farmers control the insect that transmits the... Read More
How the Tip of Florida Became a Tropical-Fruit Paradise
The Tropical Research and Education Center in Homestead, Florida—or TREC, as it’s known to local farmers—is nearly as far south and east... Read More
UF Scientists Are Trying to Prevent the Next “Coronavirus” in Florida
University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences researchers, Kwang Cheol Jeong, Ph.D., and Samantha Wisely, Ph.D., are looking at the... Read More
UF/IFAS Highlights Precision Agriculture During Gator Day at the Capitol
As orange and blue blanketed the Capitol for Gator Day, folks from the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences... Read More
Entomologist to Present History of Vegetable Pests, Points to Collaboration
About the time Hugh Smith was a graduate student in entomology and nematology at the University of Florida, his academic department was... Read More
Scientists Close In on Explaining Confounding Predator-Prey Cycle
Scientists have long known that snowshoe hare populations follow a 10-year boom and bust cycle. But what drives this cycle has fascinated... Read More
USDA Awards Grant to UF for Food Safety in Shared-Use Kitchens
The U.S Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) announced 28 grants to address the needs of new... Read More
UF Researchers Link Gene From Ancient Virus With Plant Stature
A new study from the University of Florida links the ability of plants to grow to great heights to a 500-million-year-old interaction... Read More
