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  USDA selects UIUC team to study spring dust storms over Midwest

  Dec 11, 2023 12:00 pm

  A team led by the Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment (iSEE)'s Agroecosystems Sustainability Center will study how climate, farming activities, and extreme weather events contribute to creating Midwestern dust storms, thereby predicting their formation earlier and more accurately.

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  Dept. of Crop Sciences team identifies gene that lends resistance to nuisance weed

  Nov 27, 2023 11:45 am

  Waterhemp is a weed that plagues corn and soybean fields across the Midwest. Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have discovered that a single gene is responsible for its ability to survive soil-applied herbicides.

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  Dept. of Animal Sciences creates cows that produce twenty times more milk

  Nov 13, 2023 1:45 pm

  A team of animal scientists from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is set to deliver a potential game changer for subsistence farmers in Tanzania: cows that produce up to 20 times the milk of indigenous breeds.

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  UIUC team working to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from cattle

  Oct 30, 2023 10:00 am

  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's College of Agriculture, Consumer and Environmental Sciences (ACES) animal sciences researchers Rod Mackie and Josh McCann are leading a three-year international effort to reduce methane greenhouse gas emissions resulting from rumen fermentation in beef and dairy cattle.

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  New UIUC greenhouse aims to incubate bioenergy crops

  Oct 16, 2023 10:00 am

  The new facility will house a high-throughput plant phenotyping facility designed to monitor the growth of grasses such as miscanthus and specialized strains of sugarcane and sorghum that could be developed into biofuels.

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  UIUC professor looks to 'turbo-charge' photosynthesis process

  Oct 2, 2023 10:15 am

  Professor Steve Long is the principal investigator and director of a project called Realizing Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency (RIPE), which aims to genetically tweak plants to increase their yields by improving their ability to photosynthesize.

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  UIUC group develops steam condenser coating that could boost global power efficiency

  Sep 11, 2023 2:15 pm

  The coating is for steam condensers used in fossil fuel steam-cycle generation, and it could boost the overall process efficiency by 2% - savings megatons of carbon dioxide and trillions of gallons of water each year globally.

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  New UIUC ACES dean Bollero points college towards innovative future

  Aug 28, 2023 10:15 am

  “What allures me is the curiosity of learning new things. I’m still curious about the future — and that really drives me to do better,” says Germán Bollero, dean of the University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences.

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  UIUC professors examine effects of warming planet on beef production

  Aug 7, 2023 2:30 pm

  About 20% of all global greenhouse gas emissions come from animal-based food products, and a 2022 study in the Lancet Planetary Health found that cattle heat stress losses will be far greater in most tropical regions than in temperate regions.

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  Sunlight polarization patterns may be effective underwater substitute for GPS

  Jul 24, 2023 2:00 pm

  The UIUC team's method uses the polarization angle of incoming sunlight, matched with precise time-of-day and geographic coordinates, to find a location on Earth down to almost 1,000 feet underwater.

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