Rakow receives APGA Award of Merit

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Donald Rakow, Associate Professor, Horticulture Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, and former director of Cornell Plantations, received the American Public Gardens Association’s 2015 Award of Merit at the APGA’s 39th Annual Conference...
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Fungi essential for land plants live with mysterious bacteria

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Soil fungi colonize roots and provide essential nutrients for the majority of the world’s land plants, but new research sheds light on a class of bacteria found living within these fungi. A Cornell study, published in May in the Proceedings of...
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Keeping track of weight every day may tip scales in your favor

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For those wishing to lose weight and keep it off, here’s a simple strategy that works: step on a scale each day and track the results. A two-year Cornell study, recently published in the Journal of Obesity, found that frequent self-weighing and...
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Giovannoni is working to put the flavor back in your tomato

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Plant researchers and home gardeners learned about efforts to preserve ancient traits in the tomato at Mann Library’s Harvesting Heritage event June 5. CALS Plant Breeding and Genetics Professor James Giovannoni, a researcher at the Boyce...
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CALS part of $10M grant to save citrus from greening disease

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A diverse group of researchers has teamed up to develop a therapeutic treatment for citrus greening disease, a bacterial infection that threatens U.S. citrus crops. The team received a five-year, $10 million United States Department of...
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Mann Award winner Tang studies molecular ‘trash bags’

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Each cell needs to constantly remodel the landscape of its surface because the thin membrane that surrounds all cells is fragile and must be renewed to protect the cell from lysis and death. And that’s where the trouble begins. To remove aged...
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Gellert family $3M gift endows food safety research chair

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By John Carberry A family with Cornell roots nearly 100 years old is helping the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences promote safe, high-quality foods well into the 21st century. A $3 million gift from the George Gellert family – whose...
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CALS scientists plant seeds of genomic scholarship in Thailand

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Educating a new audience about genomic selection is not so different from the process itself. It requires time, plenty of preparation and extensive knowledge. And like genomic selection itself, the results may be revolutionary. In April, Mark...
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$5.5M NSF grant aims to improve rice crops with genome editing

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A new project will harness the power of genome editing – a technique that allows researchers to precisely target, cut, remove and replace DNA in a living cell – to improve rice, a staple crop that feeds half the world’s people. The project, led...