Negative / Null Result Report2013
Catastrophic Natural Disasters and Economic Growth
The Review of Economics and Statistics
Failure-mode index
Negative results in Agricultural and Biological Sciences
137 indexed negative results, null findings, and replication failures in Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Each entry is a real published study whose primary finding was negative — learn what already failed before you repeat it.
Most-cited failures in Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Negative / Null Result Report2012
Brain anomalies in children exposed prenatally to a common organophosphate pesticide
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Negative / Null Result Report2017
Phylogenomic Insights into the Evolution of Stinging Wasps and the Origins of Ants and Bees
Current Biology
Negative / Null Result Report2013
Species Richness and the Temporal Stability of Biomass Production: A New Analysis of Recent Biodiversity Experiments
The American Naturalist
Negative / Null Result Report2012
New Insight into the History of Domesticated Apple: Secondary Contribution of the European Wild Apple to the Genome of Cultivated Varieties
PLoS Genetics
Negative / Null Result Report2015
Increasing Crop Diversity Mitigates Weather Variations and Improves Yield Stability
PLoS ONE
Negative / Null Result Report2014
Identification of loci governing eight agronomic traits using a GBS‐GWAS approach and validation by QTL mapping in soya bean
Plant Biotechnology Journal
Negative / Null Result Report2014
The making of a pest: the evolution of a fruit-penetrating ovipositor inDrosophila suzukiiand related species
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
Negative / Null Result Report2017
Nutritional value of a partially defatted and a highly defatted black soldier fly larvae (Hermetia illucens L.) meal for broiler chickens: apparent nutrient digestibility, apparent metabolizable energy and apparent ileal amino acid digestibility
Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology/Journal of animal science and biotechnology
Negative / Null Result Report2018
Impact of transposable elements on genome structure and evolution in bread wheat
Genome biology
Negative / Null Result Report2016
On the origin and evolutionary consequences of gene body DNA methylation
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Negative / Null Result Report2011
Effect of salt stress on plant growth and metabolism of bean plant Vicia faba (L.)
Journal of the Saudi Society of Agricultural Sciences
Negative / Null Result Report2012
Roots and fungi accelerate carbon and nitrogen cycling in forests exposed to elevated CO 2
Ecology Letters
Negative / Null Result Report2015
The forgotten flies: the importance of non-syrphid Diptera as pollinators
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
Negative / Null Result Report2020
Soil carbon loss with warming: New evidence from carbon‐degrading enzymes
Global Change Biology
Negative / Null Result Report2013
Host Species and Environmental Effects on Bacterial Communities Associated with Drosophila in the Laboratory and in the Natural Environment
PLoS ONE
Negative / Null Result Report2019
pH and exchangeable aluminum are major regulators of microbial energy flow and carbon use efficiency in soil microbial communities
Soil Biology and Biochemistry
Negative / Null Result Report2010
Agricultural Management and Soil Carbon Storage in Surface vs. Deep Layers
Soil Science Society of America Journal
Negative / Null Result Report2014
Allopolyploidy, diversification, and the Miocene grassland expansion
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Negative / Null Result Report2019
Microbial Community Succession and Response to Environmental Variables During Cow Manure and Corn Straw Composting
Frontiers in Microbiology
Negative / Null Result Report2018
Women’s empowerment in agriculture and agricultural productivity: Evidence from rural maize farmer households in western Kenya
PLoS ONE
Negative / Null Result Report2013
Sexual selection accelerates signal evolution during speciation in birds
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
Negative / Null Result Report2020
The Global Distribution of Biological Nitrogen Fixation in Terrestrial Natural Ecosystems
Global Biogeochemical Cycles
Negative / Null Result Report2014
A Prospective Study of Growth and Biomarkers of Exposure to Aflatoxin and Fumonisin during Early Childhood in Tanzania
Environmental Health Perspectives
Negative / Null Result Report2014
How does population density influence agricultural intensification and productivity? Evidence from Malawi
Food Policy
Negative / Null Result Report2010
Breeding Maize for a Bioeconomy: A Literature Survey Examining Harvest Index and Stover Yield and Their Relationship to Grain Yield
Crop Science
Negative / Null Result Report2020
Phylogenomic analysis sheds light on the evolutionary pathways towards acoustic communication in Orthoptera
Nature Communications
Negative / Null Result Report2014
Structural transformation or elite land capture? The growth of “emergent” farmers in Zambia
Food Policy
Negative / Null Result Report2011
Who are the innovators? A field experiment with 2 passerine species
Behavioral Ecology
Negative / Null Result Report2012
Effects of prebiotic, protein level, and stocking density on performance, immunity, and stress indicators of broilers
Poultry Science
Negative / Null Result Report2018
Clearcutting alters decomposition processes and initiates complex restructuring of fungal communities in soil and tree roots
The ISME Journal
Negative / Null Result Report2017
Determinants of smallholder farmers’ decision to adopt adaptation options to climate change and variability in the Muger Sub basin of the Upper Blue Nile basin of Ethiopia
Agriculture & Food Security
Negative / Null Result Report2016
Fungal and plant gene expression in the Tulasnella calospora–Serapias vomeracea symbiosis provides clues about nitrogen pathways in orchid mycorrhizas
New Phytologist
Negative / Null Result Report2013
Abundance and Distribution of Transposable Elements in Two Drosophila QTL Mapping Resources
Molecular Biology and Evolution
Negative / Null Result Report2013
The System of Rice Intensification and its Impacts on Household Income and Child Schooling: Evidence from Rural Indonesia
American Journal of Agricultural Economics
Negative / Null Result Report2024
Impacts of the changing climate on agricultural productivity and food security: Evidence from Ethiopia
Journal of Cleaner Production
Negative / Null Result Report2020
Gut microbiota promotes host resistance to low-temperature stress by stimulating its arginine and proline metabolism pathway in adult Bactrocera dorsalis
PLoS Pathogens
Negative / Null Result Report2014
Genetic constraints predict evolutionary divergence in Dalechampia blossoms
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
Negative / Null Result Report2020
A new composite climate change vulnerability index
Ecological Indicators
Negative / Null Result Report2015
Lack of host specificity leads to independent assortment of dipterocarps and ectomycorrhizal fungi across a soil fertility gradient
Ecology Letters
Negative / Null Result Report2013
Metarhizium anisopliae Pathogenesis of Mosquito Larvae: A Verdict of Accidental Death
PLoS ONE
Negative / Null Result Report2010
Sperm Swimming Velocity Predicts Competitive Fertilization Success in the Green Swordtail Xiphophorus helleri
PLoS ONE
Negative / Null Result Report2010
Phenotypic plasticity of thermal tolerance contributes to the invasion potential of Mediterranean fruit flies ( Ceratitis capitata )
Ecological Entomology
Negative / Null Result Report2024
Genomic factors shape carbon and nitrogen metabolic niche breadth across Saccharomycotina yeasts
Science
Negative / Null Result Report2017
Organic and Conventional Agriculture: A Useful Framing?
Annual Review of Environment and Resources
Negative / Null Result Report2017
Comparative Transcriptome Analyses inZymoseptoria triticiReveal Significant Differences in Gene Expression Among Strains During Plant Infection
Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions
Negative / Null Result Report2017
Gut microbiomes and reproductive isolation in Drosophila
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Negative / Null Result Report2019
Factors that influence the implementation of sustainable land management practices by rural households in Tigrai region, Ethiopia
Ecological Processes
Negative / Null Result Report2016
Changes in the intestinal bacterial community, short-chain fatty acid profile, and intestinal development of preweaned Holstein calves. 2. Effects of gastrointestinal site and age
Journal of Dairy Science
Negative / Null Result Report2012
Dissecting the Contributions of Plasticity and Local Adaptation to the Phenology of a Butterfly and Its Host Plants
The American Naturalist