Wild tomatoes resist devastating bacterial canker

News

In a new paper, Cornell researchers showed that wild tomato varieties are less affected by bacterial canker than traditionally cultivated varieties. The paper, “ Characterizing Colonization Patterns of Clavibacter michiganensis During Infection...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
  • Agriculture
  • Food
  • Vegetables
  • Pathology
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Pimentel, professor emeritus and environmental scientist, dies at 94

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Pimentel published more than 700 studies and 40 books, and was a pioneering voice calling for protection of the environment and promoting sustainability. He was the first agricultural researcher to argue against DDT use before it was banned, and...
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Biology
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Cornell, Nature Conservancy to study key climate projects

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A new collaboration between the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability and The Nature Conservancy will fund three studies that look for long-term, sustainable solutions to help adapt to the effects of intensifying climate change.
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Department of Communication
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Agriculture
  • Food
  • Fish
  • Soil
  • Climate Change
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Cornell joins consortium to ‘green’ business supply chains

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With more than 100 corporate, academic and nongovernmental organization (NGO) members – including Amazon, ExxonMobil, Campbell’s, Colgate-Palmolive, Pepsico Inc., Walmart and the World Wildlife Fund – the consortium explores paths to address...
  • Cornell Atkinson
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Plants speak ‘roundworm’ for self-defense, study shows

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Led by faculty member Frank Schroeder, the group studied a group of chemicals called ascarosides, which the worms produce and secrete to communicate with each other. As described in a paper published Jan. 10 in Nature Communications, the...
  • Boyce Thompson Institute
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
  • Plants
  • Soil
  • Organisms

Vice provost illuminates Cornell’s global role and impact

Spotlight

Your background includes work on international development, social mobilization, land use and critical ethnography. How have these experiences shaped your worldview and what you bring to your role? Wolford: I always laugh because when people...
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
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December graduates depart with degrees, reading list

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The landscape below was one she first came to know during two years of elementary school in Ithaca, while her mother did postdoctoral work at Cornell. After the family moved to Long Island, she’d treasured memories of the university’s green...
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CALS research leads list of 2019’s most read stories

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In addition to the world-class education it offers, Cornell is a renowned research university, so it should come as no surprise that the most read Cornell Chronicle stories of 2019 dealt with the university’s quest to answer some of science’s...
  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Food Science
  • Disease
  • Biology
  • Genetics
  • Microbiology
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CALS offers new minor in community food systems

News

periodiCALS, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2016 Students interested in learning about the social, political and agricultural aspects of food systems can choose a new minor, starting this fall, in community food systems. The new multidisciplinary minor...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Development Sociology

Good role models can help dairy farmers reduce antibiotic use

News

To find out why, an interdisciplinary team of researchers from Cornell and the University of Wageningen in the Netherlands used a social psychology approach to understand how dairy farmers’ views impact how and when they use antibiotics to treat...
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Dairy
  • Disease
  • Biology
  • Animals
  • Applied Economics
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Organic crop practices affect long-term soil health

News

The study also breaks down how specific components of soil health – such as the abundance and activity of soil animals and soil stability – affect crop productivity. “With growing interest from farmers in being able to harness and exploit soil...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section
  • Department of Entomology
  • Agriculture
  • Field Crops
  • Organic
  • Crops
  • Soil
  • Entomology
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George Stack: Cultivating knowledge for New York state hemp growers

Field Note

What drew you to the program at Cornell AgriTech? I first came to visit Cornell AgriTech for a field trip during my undergrad, and then I spent the summer here in 2018 as part of the Summer Scholars program. Both of those experiences made it...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
  • Agriculture
  • Plants
  • Horticulture
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Collaboration yields insights into mosquito reproduction

News

Four Cornell researchers – two entomologists and two engineers – took a deeper look at this process. In a paper published in Nature Scientific Reports on Dec. 6, they documented nanoscale changes in the sperm of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes and...
  • Department of Entomology
  • Entomology
  • Health + Nutrition
  • Disease
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CLASP participants connect through lifelong learning

News

Staff members who paired with student mentors for the fall semester attended a Dec. 12 luncheon in Warren Hall for a “midyear celebration of learning” at which they thanked their mentors and spoke briefly about their learning partnerships. The...
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
  • Development
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'Locally grown' broccoli looks, tastes better to consumers

News

But the New York broccoli fared much better in a subsequent series of tests. It earned the highest marks for flavor and consumers were willing to pay more for it – on par with the California variety. What changed? The second group was told the...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
  • Agriculture
  • Applied Economics
  • Behavior
  • Food
  • Vegetables
  • Horticulture
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Follow your passion

Field Note

For years as a molecular biologist I was looking for work that had more meaning and impact. My passions eventually led me to work on cassava and sweet potato, which was interesting but still too lab based. There came a moment where I realized...
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
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International education opens world of possibilities

Field Note

As an International Agriculture and Rural Development (IARD) undergraduate I had the chance to participate in a vast array of opportunities. Each one taught me something valuable, and all contributed to my future successes. My work on a farm in...
  • International Programs
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development