Conventional wisdom seems to be wrong. In the animal realm, the laws of scaling have been well known for more than a century. Yet only recently have plant biologists become aware of these laws' importance throughout nature. Taking direct aim at the youth sports drink and carbonated soft drink industry, a carbonated, milk-based beverage has been developed by food science researchers at Cornell University. It is anticipated that e-Moo, made by Mac Farms, Inc., of Burlington, Mass., will be in supermarket dairy cases within months.
Listeria is everywhere.
And because it can be found in so many places, it provides the ideal model for studying the evolution and ecology of bacterial pathogens. The initial project, which runs to July 2002, includes the development of a regionwide small ruminant auction that will unite small producers and buyers throughout the Northeast through a telephone conference link. Web site has complete texts of significant agriculture books Cornell University's Albert R. Mann Library has unveiled a web site devoted to rare, historically significant books on agriculture. Not merely citations, the books can be read in full online. The collection includes 825 full-text monographs with over 300,000 scanned pages covering topics from agricultural economics and engineering to food and soil science.