Agriculture8

• Ethylene trap for fruit
  Ethylene trap that keeps fruit fresh longer

  Soak up ethylene, the gas that ripens fruit, in storage and shipping boxes

• Pest pheromone
  Pheromone dispenser that confuses crop pests

  Release insect sex pheromone slowly in fields so moths can’t find mates, no insecticide

• Mycotoxin binder
  Mycotoxin binder for animal feed

  Bind aflatoxin from moldy grain in the gut so animals don’t absorb it

• Phosphorus catcher
  Phosphorus catcher for farm runoff

  Pull phosphate out of runoff and manure water, then reuse it as fertilizer

• Fertilizer stabilizer
  Fertilizer stabilizer that stops nitrogen loss

  Block the soil enzyme that turns urea fertilizer into ammonia gas lost to the air

• Resistant-weed killer
  Herbicide that kills resistant weeds

  New way to block a weed enzyme, since many weeds now survive glyphosate

• Low-heat ammonia
  Catalyst that makes ammonia at low heat

  Fertilizer ammonia without the high heat and pressure of Haber–Bosch

• Cow methane cutter
  Feed additive that cuts cow methane

  Stop gut microbes from making methane, a large share of farm emissions