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Study confirms safety, cancer-targeting ability of nutrient in broccoli

Date: 09 June 2011

Source: Health Canal

Sulforaphane, one of the primary phytochemicals in broccoli and other cruciferous vegetables that helps them prevent cancer, has been shown for the first time to selectively target and kill cancer cells while leaving normal prostate cells healthy and unaffected. The findings, made by scientists in the Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University, are another important step forward for the potential use of sulforaphone in cancer prevention and treatment. (See also Express.co.uk, KVAL, Examiner, UPI, Oregon NWCN).

Oregon Researchers Strive to Develop Cold Tolerant Varieties

Date: 09 June 2011

Source: Western Farmer-Stockman

Oregon State University researchers, supported by a major new initiative to produce climate-change tolerant crops, are working on a hardier variety of barley that can be grown in frostier regions of the United States.

What's in a Name? Wine, Economics, and Terroir

Date: June 2011

Source: Huffington Post

In an article that is forthcoming in the Journal of Wine Economics, Robin Cross, Andrew Plantinga (both of the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at Oregon State University), and I examine a concept that is central to the thinking of wine geeks around the world -- terroir.

Something for everyone in two new OSU potato varieties

Date: March 2011

Source: Oregon State University Extension Service

Two new potato varieties just released by Oregon State University are likely to catch the eye of Oregon's potato processing industry and the gourmet market.

OSU shares $9 million grant to manage late blight disease

Date: April 2011

Source: Oregon State University Extension Service

Oregon State University is part of a 17-institution consortium that will share a grant of $9 million to study late blight, one of the world's most significant diseases, which affects potatoes and tomatoes. The institutions are in the United States, Mexico and Scotland.