Scientists have finally managed to decipher the genome of maize, one of the most important plants in the world in terms of production and importance. Details of the high-quality sequence appear as a cover story in the November 20 issue of the top journal Science. The analysis also reveals the order in which the genes... |
20 November 2009
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Giant agriculture company Monsanto announced on Wednesday that its “drought-tolerant” corn was in the latest stage of development, and that it could become readily available for the international markets as early as next year. The announcement added that this was part of the corporation's bid to help... |
8 January 2009
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More or less, it was somewhat common knowledge that corn plays a crucial part in the industry of fast food, in one way or another. And in order to add more solid ground to this belief, a recent research has explored the real basis on which the $100-billion industry resides. The chemical tests performed in restaurants... |
11 November 2008
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We know that beer was first testified 5,000 years ago in the Old World, in the ancient Sumer (now southern Iraq) and Egypt. But the ancient Native Americans did not stay dry till the arrival of the Europeans. A new research, presented at the Materials Research Society meeting in Boston, revealed that Pueblo Indians b... |
3 January 2008
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There were three great civilizations in America before its discovery by the Europeans: Aztec, Inca and Maya; but Maya was by far the most advanced culturally and artistically. Maya civilization developed in the area where nowadays we have Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and southern Mexico, in a mountain area of tro... |
10 November 2007
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Think on an invention that is a wrapping sheet, spoon, plate, and food, all at the same time, which can be eaten accompanying almost any other dish. This is the tortilla, a corn muffin and Mexico's base aliment. Corn is believed to have started being cultivated in Mexico thousands of years ago, and sustained gre... |
6 November 2007
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For decades now, the United States used nitrogen-based fertilizers, believing that it would benefit the soil by building organic carbon into it; but a group of scientists studying the soil has recently found that nitrogen actually fertilizers deplete the carbon reserves from it.Scientist from the University of Illino... |
30 October 2007
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They may have been fearsome warriors ripping out the heart of the enemies in complex rituals, but the ancient Maya ate tapioca (manioc starch) some 1,400 years ago.The finding was made at a Maya farm preserved in volcanic ash and explains how the large Mayan cities supported the population boom. "There's a good ... |
21 August 2007
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The green fever that touched the entire computer hardware industry is extending to laptop cases as well as the Japanese hardware manufacturing Fujitsu designed a laptop case for its LifeBook family of portable computers that is as green as it gets.From household items that are environmentally friendly and biodegradab... |
18 August 2007
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People consider ethanol (biofuel) as being a solution to replace gas as this has reached high prices (up to $3-a-gallon) and the oil resources are finishing, being forecast to drop significantly in 30 years, not mentioning that most petroleum-rich nations are unreliable, non-democratic and unstable nations. Ethanol i... |
23 May 2007
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