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Kickstarting Mid-Atlantic Kernza
UD researchers team up with U.S. Department of Agriculture, MIT to understand the crop’s roots
Fighting food waste
University of Delaware researchers use black soldier fly larvae
to keep food scraps out of landfills
Protecting turfgrass from fungal foes
UD researchers report new understandings in how microbes protect plants
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Agricultural and Environmental Management
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Digital Agriculture, Robotics, and Environmental Sensing
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Human Dimensions of Food, Agriculture, and Natural Resources
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Plant and Animal Health and Disease
University of Delaware tick research aims to understand host specificity of Lyme disease: youtube.com/embed/videoseries?list=com.synechron.udel.models.functions.SubstrAfter
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Downed Milton pecan tree determined to be 109 years old
October 22, 2026 | Ryan Mavity | Cape GazetteResearchers from the University of Delaware and the U.S. Forest Service determined a pecan tree that formerly stood at the corner of Union Street Extended and Route 16 in Milton was about 109 years old when it was cut down in January. -
Fighting food waste
October 15, 2026 | Written by Katie PeikesUniversity of Delaware researchers use black soldier fly larvae to keep food waste out of landfills and turn scraps into compost and potential livestock feed. -
Kickstarting Mid-Atlantic Kernza
October 09, 2026 | Written by Katie PeikesKernza, the world’s first commercially available perennial grain, has been picking up steam in regenerative agriculture, a conservation approach focused on improving soil and ecosystem health. UD scientists teamed up with scientists from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to study and compare Kernza’s roots with the roots of common crops. -
Communicating plant stress
October 06, 2026 | Written by Katie Peikes | Photo illustration by Jeffrey C. Chase | Photos and video courtesy of Jung-Youn LeeUniversity of Delaware plant scientists have uncovered new knowledge that tiny nanopores called plasmodesmata send alert signals from cell to cell, generating a huge burst of hydrogen peroxide when a plant is wounded. The team recently published their findings in the journal The Plant Cell. The role of this burst of hydrogen peroxide is a key finding that could prove useful in engineering more climate-resilient crops.
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