Food & Agriculture

Flavorful sweet cherries that ripen earlier and are more practical to grow are the goal of a new project led in part by WSU scientists.

An effort to identify genes in spring wheat that would allow it to be more heat and drought resilient recently earned more than $2 million in funding.

Ostrom took on directorship March 16. She is the founder of the Small Farms Program, which she led for 15 years, and a 21‑year WSU faculty member.

An insight into how the fungi that causes white mold rot avoids plant defenses could lead to a new tool to combat a pathogen that causes billions of dollars of crop loss worldwide.

In a new study in Nature Communications, a WSU researcher helped investigate how hot is too hot, and how dry is too dry for Earth’s forests.

Backed by a more than $3 million fund, Steve Culman will address priorities in irrigated agriculture, including the need to better understand and protect soil.

Hanu Pappu, a preeminent dahlia virologist, has identified new viruses that affect the flowers and developed rapid, sensitive methods of detection.

At 1 p.m. Saturday, March 19, volunteers will plant young redcedars at Tacoma’s Swan Creek Park in a grassroots, classroom-focused effort to learn how these distinctive, beautiful giants can stand up to a changing climate.

Finalists aspiring to be the next dean of the College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences will be making public presentations during their visits to WSU later this month.

A free-to-download publication from WSU Extension provides beekeepers a new resource if they suspect the invasive Asian giant hornet—also commonly known as the “murder hornet”—is attacking their honey bee colonies.