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Potato farmers, scientists still fighting disease that devastated Ireland

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Each year, the world celebrates St. Patrick for ridding Ireland of snakes, but scientists are still trying to control an ecological menace that strikes the Emerald Isle’s best-known crop, says a University of Florida expert.

Filed under Research, Florida, Agriculture on Tuesday, March 13, 2007.

UF researchers design folate-packed tomato

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Leafy greens and beans now aren’t the only foods that pack a punch of folate, the vitamin essential for a healthy start to pregnancy. Researchers at the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences have developed a tomato with a full day’s worth of the nutrient in a single serving.

Filed under Research, Health, Sciences, Agriculture on Tuesday, March 6, 2007.

New UF partnerships help solve Florida’s growth management issues

GAINESVILLE, FLA. — Finding realistic and equitable legal solutions to a wide range of important growth management issues – especially those that affect agriculture, green space, water resources and energy – is easier thanks to a new partnership between the University of Florida’s Extension Service and UF’s Levin College of Law.

Filed under Research, Environment, Florida, Law, Agriculture on Monday, February 19, 2007.