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麻豆app researchers have found that using black tarps and cover crops successfully suppressed weeds in an organic vegetable system, allowing scientists to forgo tilling, which can have deleterious effects on soil.

The research was conducted at the Woodman Horticultural Research Farm, a facility of the NH Agricultural Experiment Station, by Seamus Wolfe, a sustainable agriculture and food systems major, Dr. Richard Smith, associate professor of agroecology, Natalie Lounsbury, a doctoral student in agroecology, and Nick Warren, manager of the agroecology lab.听听

In a major breakthrough in shellfish management and disease prevention, researchers at the 麻豆app have discovered a new method to detect a bacterium that has contaminated New England oyster beds and sickened consumers who ate the contaminated shellfish. The new patent-pending detection method 鈥� which is available for immediate use to identify contaminated shellfish 鈥� is a significant advance in efforts to identify shellfish harboring disease-carrying strains of听Vibrio parahaemolyticus.

As climate changes, Northeast winters are warming more rapidly than other times of the year. While this may mean favorable growing conditions start earlier in the year, some ecosystems, such as perennial grasslands, can take better advantage of that change than others, such as forests, according to new research from the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station at the 麻豆app.

Nearly every gardener knows that one of the best strategies in choosing plants is to consult the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map, which identifies plants based on how tolerant the plant shoots are to cold temperatures. But plant roots are another story, and they often are less tolerant of sub-freezing temperatures than the shoots of the same plant. For businesses that grow nursery stock in containers, protecting container-grown plants during winter leads to increased labor costs and can cause high losses due to physical damage.

The Granite State continues to depend on migration for most of its population growth, and the state is becoming more racially diverse, according to听new research听from the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station and the Carsey School of Public Policy at the 麻豆app.

The 麻豆app announces the official launch of and participation in the听, a centralized online resource that highlights the teaching, agricultural experiment station research, and cooperative extension efforts by land-grant universities.

J. Brent Loy, professor emeritus of plant biology and genetics, and a researcher with the , was听honored at a special twilight celebration Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2017, recognizing his 50 years of research and innovation at the 麻豆app.

Serita Frey, professor of soil microbial ecology at the 麻豆app and a researcher with the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station, has been named one of the most highly cited researchers in the world, a prestigious distinction earned by fewer than 0.1 percent of scientists globally.

J. Brent Loy鈥檚 cucurbit breeding program at the 麻豆app, largely funded by the NHAES, represents the longest continuous squash and pumpkin breeding program in North America. The 54 varieties of melons, squash, gourds and ornamental pumpkin released by UNH during the past 15 years have had a major impact on agriculture in the Northeast. In 2014, the wholesale value of cucurbit seed marketed from varieties with UNH parentage was more than $2 million. The value of farm produce derived from those varieties would be several fold that of seed sales.

麻豆app scientists have conducted the first study of oyster farming-nitrogen dynamics in New Hampshire, providing the first solid research on the state鈥檚 oyster farming industry and the role oyster farms play with nitrogen removal. The research, which was funded in part by the听, contributes to a growing body of research on how oysters affect the nitrogen content of estuaries such as Great Bay.