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This newsletter highlights success metrics for Purdue’s Plant Sciences 2.0 and the innovative work happening in plant sciences.

This newsletter highlights success metrics for Purdue’s Plant Sciences 2.0 and the innovative work happening in plant sciences.

The advantages of packaging a bioactive compound in a nanosized carrier have been proven in medicine for targeted drug delivery. Now Purdue researchers are studying nanocarriers for the delivery of agrochemicals to plants to reap equally important benefits — treating…

Americans tend to trust food labels, especially the ingredient list, expiration date and nutrition fact label, according to the March Consumer Food Insights Report. The most distrusted labels include low-calorie, naturalness and health claims.

Sponsored by the Indiana Soybean Alliance (ISA) and Purdue University, the competition challenges students to develop novel applications for soybeans that address market needs.

Wisecaver is one of four faculty members from Purdue’s College of Agriculture who received a University Faculty Scholar distinction this year, an award recognizing faculty on accelerated paths in the discovery and dissemination of knowledge.

Once upon a time, prevailing scientific opinion might have pronounced recently published research in Nature Communications by a team of Purdue University scientists as unneeded. Now, climate change implications have heightened the need for this line of research.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded a $10 million grant to Purdue University to help landowners and stakeholders better adapt their forests to increasingly complicated economic and climate conditions in the Eastern U.S. About five million small, private landowners…

A special issue of the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment lays the foundation for pursuing structural diversity as a new research direction in ecology. The issue, funded by the National Science Foundation, also describes the digital data collection…

The Office of Academic Programs, along with the College of Agriculture Awards Committee and Agricultural Research and Graduate Education, announced seven recipients of the 2022-2023 College of Agriculture Faculty and Staff teaching awards.

Consumers can expect higher turkey prices at grocery stores this Thanksgiving. This trend is not surprising given rising costs of other meat and produce.

A new A.I. project in digital forestry at Purdue is converting satellite data into accurate tree inventories, revealing how trees influence urban areas and the magic number needed for significant heat benefits.