Apples are as American as apple pie. Let's look at some cool innovations and research that ARS scientists are conducting to ensure those apples in your shopping cart are fresh, tasty, cost-friendly, and high quality.

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Season 2: Apples: Get Crunchin'

Learn about innovations and research that ARS scientists are conducting to turn farm waste, called Biomass, into environmentally friendly products.

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Season 3: Biomass

In this episode of Science In Your Shopping Cart we pull back the curtains to reveal how ARS scientists create new berry cultivars and work with the food industry to help farmers keep up with growing consumer demands for fresh fruit.

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Season 4: Berries

Did you know that some wonderplants can be used to control and even kill annoying flies and mosquitoes?

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Season 5: WonderPlants | Episode 5: Did You Know - Insect Repellants

ARS scientists are coming up with new ways to produce clean energy by developing a large filter-type application out of discarded almond shells that could capture and then store hydrogen, as well as other components for energy purposes.

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Season 5: WonderPlants | Episode 6: From Shells to Cells

Learn about this amazing wonderplant and some of the ways we use this plant in our everyday lives.

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Season 5: WonderPlants | Episode 7: Soybeans

In this episode of Science In Your Shopping Cart we take a tour of some super human plants that we use in our everyday lives to help feed and protect us.

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Season 5: WonderPlants

Aquaculture, commonly known as fish farming, is a global multi-billion dollar industry, and is one of the fastest growing forms of food production.  Unfortunately, most fish farming occurs overseas. ARS is helping the U.S. aquaculture industry provide more locally sourced seafood, including oysters, trout, salmon, catfish, and new varieties. In fact, you may soon be able to purchase seafood that was farm raised in your own city or town.

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Season 6: Aquaculture | Episode 1: Bringing Seafood Closer to Home

Fish farmers are using natural contained aquifers to grow fish to market size at an incredible fast rate. That’s because aquifers can provide optimal conditions for fish rearing. Unfortunately, you can’t scale-up aquifers. ARS researchers are working with fish farmers to develop and implement best management practices to increase fish yields, health, and size of fish reared in aquifers.

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Season 6: Aquaculture | Episode 2: Fastest Growing Fish You've Ever Seen

When you grow anything indoors, you can control a lot of the conditions, including temperature, irrigation, insect and disease resistance, and water quality and consumption. ARS researchers are using indoor recirculating systems to improve the health and yields of rainbow trout while maintaining great taste and market size.

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Season 6: Aquaculture | Episode 3: Farm Fishing Indoors

Sea lice is a huge problem in the seafood business. Not only does sea lice cause physical harm, but it can also stress the fish out, which can then affect their growth rate and ability to fight off other diseases. I mean, how would you like a blood sucker attached to your skin all the time? There currently are no vaccines or effective treatments for sea lice. However, ARS researchers are working to develop an Atlantic salmon strain that is resistant to sea lice.

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Season 6: Aquaculture | Episode 4: Taking on Atlantic Salmon's Biggest Foe

Test your knowledge of aquaculture and learn some interesting facts.

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Season 6: Aquaculture | Episode 5: Aquaculture Trivia!

Did you know that the popular Roma tomato was actually developed by ARS scientists in Beltsville, MD? Or that ARS technology has helped reduce the use of pesticides on apples and other fruits? Or that ARS researchers are turning waste after harvest into fuels and other products? Check out our new podcast series, Science in Your Shopping Cart, and learn how science touches many of the products we buy at the grocery store, from new varieties of fruits and vegetables to technological advances that make our food safer, cheaper, and tastier.  

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