Writer: Steve Hill, (979) 845-2895 Contact: Dr. Kevin McInnes, (979) 845-5986 COLLEGE STATION — Chemicals traveling through soil toward groundwater are like travelers without maps, clocks and speedometers: there’s no telling when they’ll arrive. Texas Agricultural Experiment Station researchers, however, are developing a method they hope will help predict just how chemicals reach groundwater from… Read More →
COLLEGE STATION — Texas A&M University’s recreation, park and tourism sciences department has named a new award for Terese Tarlton Hershey of Houston and has honored Dr. John V. Blackburn of Bryan with its annual alumni award. Hershey, a member of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission since 1991, is the namesake of the new… Read More →
COLLEGE STATION — Dr. Joanne Lupton is dedicated to the proposition that not all dietary fibers are created equal, and she hopes her newest five-year research program helps prove that point to consumers and the government. One of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station researcher’s goals is to increase public understanding of the roles of various… Read More →
COLLEGE STATION — Earth Day will mean birth day for about 10 Attwater’s prairie chicken, one of the most endangered species in the world. The chicks are expected to begin pecking out of their shells late Friday, according to Dr. Nova Silvy, upland game management researcher at Texas A&M University and leader of the federal… Read More →
LUBBOCK — Aphids coming to feast on cotton plants on the High Plains this season may find the humidity in this normally dry climate truly unbearable. Scientists are hoping that a fine mist from a sprinkler system will help fend off damaging early season insects at the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station at Halfway. If all… Read More →
COLLEGE STATION — The meat industry’s constant quest for tenderness could benefit with just a touch, says a Texas Agricultural Experiment Station scientist working with a promising automatic meat-grading technology. The “touch” is elastography, a new form of ultrasonic measurement developed for the medical field. It could also have important implications for beef, pork and… Read More →
EL PASO – Move over, yellow rose, the way to a Texas heart may soon be a bouquet of long-stemmed bluebonnets. These Texas-sized beauties, developed by researchers at the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station in El Paso and Dallas, are expected to fill a void in the floral market. “In the cut-flower market, there’s a real… Read More →
Writer: Kathleen Davis Phillips, (979) 845-2872, ka-phillips@tamu.edu Contact: Dr. Suresh Pillai, (915) 859-9111 EL PASO — Disease-causing microbes lurking in water, soil and food now may be more easily found, says a scientist who developed new molecular detection methods. Dr. Suresh Pillai, an environmental microbiologist at the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, devised methods to genetically… Read More →
COLLEGE STATION — A lack of moisture so far in Texas this winter may have put a damper on Africanized honey bee activities despite overall mild winter temperatures. Inspectors with the Texas Apiary Inspection Service have been coming up dry in trap checks throughout the state all winter. And the state Honey Bee Identification Lab… Read More →
Dr. Leonard Pike, director of the Vegetable Improvement Center at Texas A&M University, has been named Man of the Year in Service to Southwest Agriculture by Progressive Farmer magazine. The honor, which appears in the February edition of the magazine, notes that Pike’s development of the famous, ultrasweet 1015 onion “will pale in comparison with… Read More →
