In animals, plants and other eukaryotic organisms, typically one protein is translated from each mRNA. Usually, translation can start only at one end of the mRNA strand. In contrast, several viruses ...
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Teosinte is a wild relative of maize that is native to Mexico and unable to grow in the United States. Although closely related, teosinte does not interbreed naturally with cultivated corn.UW–Madiso...
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Beer can be divided into two broad categories: ales and lagers. Ales have been brewed for thousands of years. They are warm fermented (up to 80° F) for as little as three weeks using top-fermenting y...
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Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Torulaspora delbrueckii and Hanseniaspora uvarum yeast strains have long been associated with industrial and natural fermentation processes, including beer and wine productio...
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In both beef and dairy livestock production facilities, feed bunk scoring and decisions about when to deliver feed are almost exclusively determined by visual assessment by trained staff. This is a hi...
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Reaping billion dollar losses every year, coccidiosis is a common protozoan infection of agricultural animals that targets the digestive system. Its symptoms include weight loss, diarrhea and suppress...
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The United States cattle industry includes about 40 million beef and dairy cows. At some point in their lives the majority of calves will graze and be exposed to parasitic worms known as helminthes. W...
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Metagenomics is the study of genetic material from environmental samples for detecting microbes, especially pathogens. It is increasingly used within clinical and industrial settings. While metagenomi...
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Interspecies yeast hybrids are critical for producing commercially important fermentation products such as Belgian ale, certain ciders and cold-fermented wines. As one major example, lager beer, the m...
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Genetic transformation of maize and other crops is critically important to agronomy research as well as advancing desirable traits such as improved yield, disease resistance and drought tolerance. Mo...
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Hemp, one of the earliest plants to be spun into fiber thousands of years ago, now commands a $6 billion global market that includes high-profile products like CBD and other cannabinoid oils. However,...
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Methods of isolating phenols from phenol-containing media. The methods include combining a phospholipid-containing composition with the phenol-containing medium to generate a combined medium, incubati...
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In commercial crop production, it is often desirable to know which individuals are of a specific sex or those harboring certain traits. Current methods employed to isolate or enrich a desired plant po...
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The UW-Madison researcher generated a set of sweet corn inbred lines for sweet corn hybrid production. These new lines offer sweet, visually appealing corn desired by consumers as well as the high yie...
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Whey, a liquid by-product of the cheese industry, has enormous potential as a source of food protein as well as pharmacological, immunological, antibacterial and bioactive agents. A significant portio...
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UW-Madison researchers have identified novel phenylalanine ammonia lyase (PAL) enzymes that are activated, rather than inhibited, by downstream phenylpropanoids, most notably caffeic acid. When these ...
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Researchers from UW-Madison and UW-River Falls have developed a process that could enable the use of milk-derived FAs in IVFE (intravenous fat emulsions). The inventors have identified processing st...
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UW-Madison researchers developed a novel corn line, W2012, a mid-relative maturity corn line. Selection was based on hybrid grain yield, moisture, test weight, and using a yield/moisture selection ind...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed methods for preparing a high protein (8%) yogurt beverage using calcium-reduced microfiltered milk and pectin. Furthermore, the yogurt was stable after heat treat...
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A UW-Madison researcher has created a set of genetically modified cannabis lines that display different phenotypes of interest including increasing cannabinoids, decreasing cannabinoids but increasing...
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UW-Madison corn breeders have developed 26 new corn inbred lines selected for various kernel colors. The lines have a blue, red, or brown hue to the corn kernels. Additional work will focus on charact...
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UW-Madison inventors have performed extensive multi-omic and gene network analyses to predict key autophagy regulators for autophagy, since upregulated autophagy has been shown to be beneficial for pl...
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The present invention from UW-Madison researchers is an imaging system to monitor and possibly to forecast feeding in bunks in livestock yards. The inventors developed the system utilizing cameras at ...
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UW-Madison researchers have generated T₀ transgenic Cannabis sativa plants expressing CsMYB33 or CsMYB78 transcription factors, which induce visible anthocyanin pigmentation in vegetative and reprod...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a method of using a combination of derivatives of lignin molecules to treat fungal pathogens. The researchers have studied a combination of two molecules that are...
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