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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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All-species SARS-CoV-2 test created by UIUC researchers

Jul 17, 2023 12:15 pm

In an advance that will help scientists track coronavirus variants in wild and domesticated animals, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign team report they can now detect exposure to the SARS-CoV-2 virus in any animal species.
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