lucks lab archives - planet forward - 克罗地亚vs加拿大让球 //www.getitdoneaz.com/tag/lucks-lab/ inspiring stories to 2022年卡塔尔世界杯官网 tue, 28 feb 2023 18:36:21 +0000 en-us hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 researchers bring biotech to farmers worldwide with plant-dx //www.getitdoneaz.com/story/researchers-bring-biotech-to-farmers-worldwide-with-plant-dx/ fri, 08 feb 2019 06:17:27 +0000 http://dpetrov.2create.studio/planet/wordpress/researchers-bring-biotech-to-farmers-worldwide-with-plant-dx/ researchers at northwestern university are transforming complicated biotechnology into a simple an easy tool for farmers to test for crop disease with plant-dx.

]]> in 2018, family farming generated about 80 percent of the earth’s food. as climate change raises global temperatures and prompts extreme weather events, these small-scale operations will face surges in pests and crop disease.

in response, researchers at the northwestern university lucks lab have developed plant-dx, a mobile platform to help farmers test crops quickly and on-the-go. this november, the bill & melinda gates foundation awarded the lucks lab with the grand challenges explorations grant to further develop plant-dx into an accessible solution for farmers around the world.

graduate student matthew verosloff, leader of the plant-dx project, warms a plant sample with his body heat. farmers will be able to test their crops within hours using the same simple technology. (molly glick/northwestern university)
this visual read-out for plant and water samples hooks up to sensors and can alert farmers to the presence of multiple viruses at once. (molly glick/northwestern university)
samples from the lucks lab, where researchers also are also developing affordable water testing techniques for individual households (molly glick/northwestern university).

 

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