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Controlling Zebra Chip Disease From the Inside Out
Zebra chip disease in potatoes is currently being managed by controlling the potato psyllid with insecticides. But one Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service specialist is trying to manage the...
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Eat4-Health Helps South Texas Students Eat, Play Healthy
Eat4-Health program teaches healthy eating and activity habits to students.
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'Dinner Tonight! Program Promotes Family Nutrition, Togetherness
The percentage of the family food budget spent on away-from-home food has steadily increased since the 1970s and so has the amount of calories families consume.
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Coffee Recycling Keeps Community Grounded
More than eight tons a month. That's how much organic material in the form of spent coffee grounds the Austin-based Ground to Ground program diverts from area landfills and makes available to people in...
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Manipulating Heat and Drought Tolerance in Cowpeas
Cowpeas, known as black-eyed peas in the U.S., are an important and versatile food legume grown in more than 80 countries. Texas A&M University scientists are working to map the genes controlling...
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Researchers Discover 'Trojan Horse' Method of Penetrating Cellular Walls...
Scientists with Texas A&M AgriLife Research have found a "Trojan horse" way to deliver proteins into live human cells without damaging them. The finding, published in this month's Nature Methods,...
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Study Identifies Contributing Factors to Groundwater Table Declines
It's no secret groundwater levels have declined across the state over the past eight decades, and that the primary reason was the onset of irrigation in agriculture and population growth. But a recent...
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AgriLife Research Putting Designer Potatoes on the Menu to Boost Consumption
A decline in overall potato consumption has Texas A&M AgriLife Research breeders working on "designer" spuds that meet the time constraints and unique tastes of a younger generation.
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Texas Producers Find New Oil Fields -- Olive Groves
Texas has been known for its oil production for almost 150 years. Now, a new oil industry is sprouting in what may bring producers cash and consumers a local, edible choice -- olive oil. Olive trees,...
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Mown Grass Smell Sends SOS for Help in Resisting Insect Attacks
The smell of cut grass in recent years has been identified as the plant's way of signalling distress, but new research says the aroma also summons beneficial insects to the rescue.
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Texas Roses Must Be 'on' Year Round to Make the Cut
It's late autumn, and most of the blossom-laden plants that colored summer are fading. But seasonal changes offer no excuse for roses in experimental plots around Texas. They had better be loaded with...
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Electron-Beam Technology a Better Way to Sanitize Ebola Waste?
Dr. Suresh D. Pillai said electron beam technology could be much safer and more cost effective to sanitize ebola virus contaminated equipment and wastewater.
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Ibuprofen Use Leads to Extended Lifespan in Several Species, Study Shows
A common over-the-counter drug that tackles pain and fever may also hold keys to a longer, healthier life, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Research scientist. Regular doses of ibuprofen extended...
View ArticleTravis County Celebrates Its Rural History
Article on a celebration of the rural and agrarian roots of Travis County and 100th anniversary of the national land-grant Extension system.
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Texas Crop, Weather for Feb. 24, 2015
Weekly summary of crop, livestock and weather conditions throughout Texas.
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AgriLife Extension's Dinner Tonight! Program Serving Up Variety of Enhancements
The Dinner Tonight! program of the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service has been enhanced and expanded, and its administrators have chosen March, National Nutrition Month, to announce program...
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Strawberry Fields Forever -- a Texas Possibility
Having fresh, local strawberries within reach across Texas is getting closer to reality, though growers and researchers alike say producing the popular fresh fruit is a new field altogether."Our goal...
View ArticleStem Cells Help Researchers Peg Rabies Resistance
Researchers at Texas A&M AgriLife Research have developed a new technology to determine sensitivity or resistance to rabies virus.
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From Cockroaches to Parasitic Wasps, Creepy Crawlers Are for Kids
Introducing what others would call "creepy crawlers" to kids is one way entomologists have witnessed transforming growth both personally and academically for the children they teach. The goal of the...
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