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After 44 years at its current location at the 麻豆app, the听New Hampshire Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory (NHVDL)听soon will have a new-and-improved home on campus. Construction is set to begin soon on a modern facility that will better enable the NHVDL to provide essential diagnostic services to the state鈥檚 agricultural, veterinary, wildlife, and public health communities and enrich their contributions to the academic opportunities for students in the university鈥檚 biomedical sciences and pre-veterinary medicine programs.听

The听, a facility of the听听at the听, has been awarded a 2014 Gold Quality Award by the Dairy Farmers of America.

Preliminary results of a 麻豆app research project investigating the potential cost savings of using heat pumps to heat and cool greenhouses suggest that heat pumps could substantially reduce heating oil consumption.

Decades ago, bobcats were commonplace across the Granite State, but their numbers dwindled to near extinction because of land use changes and hunting. Since 1989, they have been protected, and scientists with the听at the听, are using DNA analysis to assess the abundance and range of the state鈥檚 bobcat population.

In the first study on growing Brussels sprouts in northern New England, a researcher with the听NH Agricultural Experiment Station听at the 麻豆app has found that different varieties of the vegetable perform much better than others, and the practice of topping has the potential to increase marketable yields.

The 麻豆app will conduct a market feasibility study to assess the viability of cold-hardy kiwifruit, or kiwiberries, as a novel, high-value horticultural crop that could spur economic development among small farms in northern New Hampshire.

Among birds, the line between species is often blurry. Some closely related species interbreed where their ranges overlap, producing hybrid offspring that can backcross with either parent species, until a whole population of mixed-species birds forms in the area and creates what鈥檚 known as a 鈥渉ybrid zone.鈥� In the coastal marshes of New England, this has been happening between two sparrows鈥� the Saltmarsh Sparrow and Nelson鈥檚 Sparrow.

The new fruit was developed by Becky Sideman, a researcher with the听听and听听professor of sustainable horticulture production, and her collaborators Elisabeth Hodgdon at the University of Vermont and Jennifer Noseworthy of Gordon College. Both are former UNH graduate students and worked on the development of Rambling Rose while at UNH.

Researchers from the听听and the听听at the 麻豆app recently were honored for their intellectual property contributions to the university in the last year, including new inventions that manipulate the caffeine content in a tea plant and the development of a new way of detecting a pathogenic virus in shellfish.

For more than 40 years, policy makers have been working to reduce acid rain, a serious environmental problem that can devastate听lakes, streams, and forests and the plants and animals that live in these ecosystems. Now new research funded by the听听at the听听indicates that lakes in New England and the Adirondack Mountains are recovering rapidly from the effects of acid rain.