Individuals have a more negative reaction to the societal time change to Standard Time (ST) in the fall than to Daylight Saving Time (DST) in the spring, according to a study published March 4, 2026, in the open-access journal PLOS One. The findings were reported by Ben Ellman, an independent researcher in Illinois, Michael Smith of the Purdue University College of Agriculture, U.S., and colleagues.

A new study shows how climate and light conditions interaction affect the early growth in abarco, a highly valued tropical timber species, offering critical guidance for reforestation and sustainable forest management in the face of climate change.

A variety of proteins extracted from rice milling byproducts were shown to provide different qualities desired in plant-based cheesemaking, including firm texture and meltability. Mahfuzur Rahman, a food scientist and grain processing engineer with the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station, and graduate student Ruslan Mehadi Galib published their results in the journal Future Foods under the title "Three shads of plant protein from a single rice cultivar: Insights into subunit profiles, molecular structures, functional and nutritional properties, and cheesemaking performance."

A new study published in Biochar presents a practical and regulation-compliant design for producing biochar on farms that could dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture while permanently removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

Few pests eat away at farm profitability as much as soybean cyst nematode (SCN). Causing at least $1.5 billion in yield losses annually, it’s soybean’s single biggest threat. Unfortunately, soybean’s most effective tool, genetic resistance, is starting to fail. 

Almost all plants live in close symbiosis with so-called mycorrhizal fungi – an important symbiosis for absorbing essential nutrients. In their new study, a team led by ecologist Christina Kaiser from the Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science (CeMESS) at the University of Vienna has now discovered that this mycorrhizal symbiosis is very sensitive to imbalances of certain nutrients (nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium) in the soil. The data comes from a 70-year long-term study and therefore provides particularly valuable insights, enabling scientists to make a significant contribution to sustainable agriculture. The results have recently been published in the renowned journal The New Phytologist.

Indigenous peoples have used forest thinning to protect against wildfires for millennia. These traditional methods – including cultural burning – have often been neglected in modern times, which is thought to have contributed to wildfires in the US and elsewhere. Now, researchers have shown for the first time in a regional hotspot for wildfire risk and drought risk that forest thinning with modern tools has an additional benefit: it increases the snowpack in winter by 16 to 30%, thus recovering lost water and helping to safeguard its supply for natural and human needs.