Soil produces or consumes gases such as carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ammonia, and oxygen through normal biological and geological processes. Current soil gas-flux measurement systems are ex...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed two related strains of S. eubayanus (yHJC187 and yHJC188) that possess the key desirable traits for lager beer fermentation: natural cold tolerance, an ability to...
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Aspects of the present disclosure from UW Madison researchers are directed to methods and apparatuses involving characterization via homologizing disparate speech terminology. As may be implemented in...
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UW Madison researchers have identified a maize gene that stimulates somatic embryogenesis upon overexpression in plant cells. The researchers studied genetic locations in chromosomes of maize lines th...
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The present invention relates to a ‘sugar fermentate of edible fungi’ (i.e., cultures of GRAS species from the genus Aspergillus) that exhibits antimicrobial activity (e.g., against Listeria monoc...
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Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi provide nutrients to plants and aid their growth. This symbiotic interaction is mediated by signaling molecules, most notably lipochito-oligosaccharides (LCOs). LCOs ...
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UW researchers have identified a genetic mutation in a family of genes that removes a repressor of the shikimate pathway. Their work identified the suppressor of tyra2 (sota) as a target to deregulate...
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Aspects of this innovation by UW researchers are directed to methods and apparatuses involving the characterization of livestock feeding functions. As may be implemented as or with one or more embodim...
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The present invention relates to novel IBV vaccines containing novel modified S and N antigens from avian coronaviruses. The modifications include: S has a modified transmembrane domain for better sec...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed improved methods and systems for characterizing soil using visible-near-infrared spectroscopy (vis-NIRS) data. Combining their spectrographic data with additional...
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UW Madison researchers provide herein methods for preparing a product including predominantly prebiotic oligosaccharides by non-enzymatic methods of glycosylation of monosaccharides, disaccharides, an...
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The present invention is a new plant transit peptide that can be used to improve the efficiency of plant gene transformation. The UW-Madison researchers analyzed sequences of thousands of proteins inv...
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UW Madison researchers have developed compounds of Formula I, compositions comprising the compounds, and methods for using the compounds. The methods include methods for modulating quorum sensing by ...
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The present invention from UW Madison researchers provides pollen compositions, methods and kits for making said compositions, and methods of using said compositions to fertilize a plant. The pollen w...
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A UW-Madison researcher has developed a new carrot population, called WISYNTH, that was made by bringing together several carrot inbred lines, intermating them, and selecting for processing carrot typ...
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These inventors have recognized that various diseases in plants, such as Phytophthora infestans (late blight) and Alternaria solani (early blight), and/or various stages of such diseases in plants, ca...
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In the mid-1990s the UW began a program for developing seedless cucumber hybrids. The base populations for this program were a Gynoecious Synthetic population and a Hardwickii Semi-Exotic population r...
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A former UW-Madison genetics researcher, Jerry Kermicle, previously developed a corn line that contained a teosinte crossing barrier (TCB) which prevents the line from successfully crossing with any o...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed doubled haploid and recombinant inbred line populations from crosses among public maize lines for the purposes of genetic mapping. In hybrid combination, these li...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed new tomato rootstock crosses based on cultivators and germplasm accessories obtained from USDA germplasm bank to identify rootstock populations. This new tomato r...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed new tomato rootstock varieties for inbred Ralstonia bacteria-resistant lines that may be useful for grafted tomato production in tropical locations. This new toma...
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Conjugates of protein and polysaccharide linked by a phosphate bridge. The conjugates are made by reacting a protein with a polysaccharide in the presence of POCl3.
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Saccharomyces eubayanus is the cold-tolerant parent yeast of the lager brewing yeast Saccharomyces pastorianus. In recent years there has been considerable interest in brewing with pure strains of S. ...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a new set of inbred corn lines with desirable traits such as high sugar content, creamy texture, tenderness and excellent flavor. Some lines also have attractive ...
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According to the USDA, Wisconsin farmers produced 73,610 tons of carrots in 2010.
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