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$4M to improve maize breeding, food production

The NSF-funded project aims to address food security.

Researchers seek to improve nitrogen management and better understand the global nitrogen cycle.

Brewbaker’s driving ambition was to leverage science as a means to alleviate widespread hunger around the globe.

Drones are being used worldwide to monitor crop growth, disease and weeds, and to apply fertilizer and crop protection products.

On Oʻahu, more than 1,500 pounds of surplus taro corms were donated to a community food drive.

Kent Kobayashi is the recipient of the 2020 Outstanding Peer Reviewer Award by HortTechnology.

Miaoying Tian and Sharon Motomura-Wages will characterize pathogen populations and identify disease-resistant germplasm from Hawaiʻi collections.

Noa Lincoln examines native and heirloom sugarcane, along with detailed varietal descriptions of cultivars held in collections today.

UH Mānoa and UH Hilo researchers helped publish a study in the hopes of advancing the fight against an infectious disease that wipes out taro.

Department of Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences’ Michael Kantar argues that this essential sustainable farming practice needs more land for seeds.