WESLACO – Virus-free citrus budwood, intended to fortify the Texas citrus industry against a devastating virus, is now available at the Texas A&M-Kingsville Citrus Center at Weslaco for both growers and gardeners. In a tedious and time-consuming effort that started in 1993 under the direction of Dr. Mani Skaria, the first major cutting of budwood…
COLLEGE STATION – Finding new ways to reduce aflatoxin in crops, particularly in corn where it thrives during drought conditions, is the focus of a Texas Agricultural Experiment Station study that researchers hope will lead to reducing the economic hardship the fungus places on the state’s corn farmers. Aflatoxin is a toxic and carcinogenic metabolite…
COLLEGE STATION Dr. Richard A. Frederiksen, a plant pathologist at Texas A&M University, will receive the 1999 Board for International Food and Agricultural Development Chair’s Award for Scientific Excellence at a ceremony scheduled March 16 in Washington, D.C. The award recognizes an individual researcher or team of researchers for a significant achievement originating from…
Writer: Kathleen Phillips,(979) 845-2872,ka-phillips@tamu.edu Contact: Dr. Paul Fitzpatrick, (979) 845-5487,fitzpat@tamu.edu COLLEGE STATION - Like an aspirin speeds through the body to inhibit fever, research is finding how other compounds might treat neurological disorders such as PKU in infants and Parkinson’s disease in adults, a scientist at Texas A&M University says. “The modern approach is to determine the…
WHAT: “New Horizons: Continuing the Legacy” — The Texas A&M University System Agriculture Program Conference WHEN: Wednesday, Jan. 12, 8:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. WHERE: Rudder Theater, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas WHO: More than 700 people from across the state will attend, representing the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, Texas Agricultural Extension Service, Texas…
WESLACO – An innovative method of producing infant citrus trees could revolutionize the fruit tree industry by saving growers time, space and money. The new method, called micro-budding, was developed by Dr. Mani Skaria, a plant pathologist at the Texas A&M-Kingsville Citrus Center at Weslaco in the Lower Rio Grande Valley. “Isn’t this incredible?” Skaria…
Writer: Kathleen Phillips, (979) 845-2872,ka-phillips@tamu.edu Contact: Dr. Edgar Meyer, (979) 845-1744,E-meyer@tamu.edu COLLEGE STATION — Flash photography catching molecules in action or a model of a virus molecule docking and invading a cell are among cutting-edge research projects in crystallography, a field that has evolved dramatically over the past 50 years. The crystallographic analysis of biomolecules makes it…
COLLEGE STATION Two studies at Texas A&M University are aimed at keeping salmonella and campylobacter, the leading food-borne pathogens in the United States, from fouling up poultry at processing plants. The first in broiler chickens indicates that simply adding a prophylactic such as lactic acid to poultry drinking water during the feed…
Writer: Dave Mayes, (979) 845-2803,d-mayes@tamu.edu AUSTIN — The Texas economy has a golden opportunity to capitalize on the coming biotechnology revolution in agriculture, but the state has to play “catch up” to become a national leader in attracting these businesses, participants meeting on the future of biotechnology in Texas were told Thursday. “In terms of fostering…
WESLACO — As the Lower Rio Grande Valley’s 1999-2000 citrus season slowly gets under way with the harvesting of early oranges, reports are trickling in to local scientists about mysterious markings on some fruit. Drs. Mani Skaria and Vic French at the Texas A&M-Kingsville Citrus Center at Weslaco say the strange blemishes started showing up…
