Apr 8, 2024
Heike Sederoff and her team are trying to understanding the symbiotic relationship between certain plants and the fungi and bacteria in the soil so they might some day return that lost relationship to the brassicas.
Mar 25, 2024
A new tool improves the accuracy of electronic devices that measure the color of a plant’s leaves to assess health.
Mar 15, 2024
A $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation is kickstarting an effort to create an agricultural technology corridor from central to eastern North Carolina, and NC State University plays a key role.
Mar 13, 2024
A simple trick improves the accuracy of techniques that help us understand how external variables – such as temperature – affect gene activity in plants.
Mar 4, 2024
NC State University researchers are taking rapid steps to bring promising plant disease detecting technologies out of the laboratory and into the commercial marketplace. With a one-year National Science Foundation grant…
Feb 2, 2024
PFAS chemicals, sometimes referred to as “forever chemicals,” have been a big topic in North Carolina and the rest of the country in recent years, and often, it seems, there are…
In the face of significant farmland loss in a fast-growing state, how will North Carolina agriculture and agribusiness continue to grow? Speaking at the 2024 North Carolina Commodity Conference in January,…
Dec 18, 2023
The towering Fraser fir that heralds the holidays in the Blue Room of the White House this year is a prime example of what can happen when NC State’s Christmas Tree Extension Team partners with the growers.
Dec 12, 2023
The National Academy of Inventors named NC State University’s Craig Yencho a 2023 fellow for his contributions to improved sweetpotato and potato breeding and genetics, with an impact reaching from North Carolina to Sub-Saharan Africa.
Dec 1, 2023
NC State researchers are working to develop “elite” Fraser fir trees that look better, grow faster and retain their needles longer.