Hackathon breeds momentum for plant breeding software

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Sometimes the only way to get something done is to get everyone in a room and hack out a solution – a “hackathon”, especially when “everyone” is an international group of programmers from plant breeding centers working to create a single...

Two specialty crop projects receive over $6M in USDA grants

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Cornell University researchers are working on speeding up development, evaluation and adoption of new apple rootstocks and building a $100 million East Coast broccoli industry through new cultivars. These are two Cornell-led projects that...

Smart, Bogdanove earn awards for plant disease research

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A pair of CALS plant disease experts earned honors from the American Phytopathological Society (APS) for their leadership and contributions to the field of plant pathology. Adam Bogdanove and Christine Smart, both of the Plant Pathology and...

Warbler genomes look to be 99.97 percent alike

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Blue-winged warbler populations have declined 66 percent since 1968, according to the North American Breeding Bird Survey. The two species are known to frequently interbreed where they co-occur, and scientists have been concerned that the more...

Farm-to-table on a city roof

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The skyline view from Brooklyn Grange’s rooftop is delectable, but fresh organic produce from the organization’s one-acre rooftop Flagship Farm is even more delicious. Director David Lodge and ACSF faculty fellows joined with the College of...

Geneva scholars experience a summer of Cornell science

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Growing up in Puerto Rico meant Sofia González Martinez never saw apple orchards dotting the landscape. The thought of studying apples as an academic pursuit seemed like a remote possibility for a young student with a love of all plants. That...

Grapes 101: Water Stress

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How Grapevines Respond to Water Stress Water relations are a key factor in grapevine growth and development. Plants take up water to maintain cell turgor, to make and expand new tissues, to provide evaporative cooling, and to facilitate gas...
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CALS food science shines at national competition in Chicago

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Some good news for two recent Cornell Food Science graduates is bad news for food-borne pathogens everywhere. Samantha VanWees ’16 and Genevieve Sullivan ’16 earned first and second place at the annual Institute of Food Technologists’...

Election 2016: Convention Crowd Boos, But Twitter Cheers for Cruz

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Drew Margolin, a professor of communication at Cornell University who studies human dynamics through social media, isn’t just tracking how the electorate is reacting to candidates in one single moment via Twitter, but how they have been reacting...
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Art’s historical love affair with decadent, unusual meals

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Our obsession with looking at tasty, exotic food, it turns out, is not just a social media fad. The abundance of #foodporn posts popular on Instagram may signify a longstanding fascination with edible decadence that would have been as familiar...
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Study: vineyard cover crops save expense, environment

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Cornell researchers have advice for vineyard managers in cool and humid climates like the Northeast: cover up. Maintaining bare soil beneath vines has long been accepted management practice to stifle competition from other vegetation, preserving...
Grapes on a grapevine

Election 2016: What the Tweets Tell Us

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Drew Margolin, a professor of communication at Cornell University who studies human dynamics through social media, isn’t just tracking how the electorate is reacting to candidates in one single moment via Twitter, but how they have been reacting...
A graphic of a the Twitter logo, a bird, made up of smaller graphics related to the 2016 election.