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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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The US National Science Foundation (NSF) has recently announced that it awarded an additional 32 new research grants to plant-genome research, totaling no less than $101.6 million. This year was the 12th of the Plant Genome Research Program (PGRP), and the federal agency awarded research money ranging from $500,000 t... |
21 October 2009
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According to the latest statistics provided by the British Beekeepers' Association (BBKA), it would appear that one in five UK bees died over the past winter. While the number may seem manageable, the association draws attention to the fact that more than 30 percent of the total stock was lost the year before, w... |
24 August 2009
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According to a new scientific study, it may be that the earliest forms of agriculture may have had a significant impact on the overall climate and temperatures on a global scale, mostly on account of the fact that massive numbers of trees were burnt to give way to crop fields. As the trees burned, they also released ... |
17 August 2009
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Scientists at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), in Teddington, the UK, have recently announced the creation of a new type of imaging technology, which would allow mechanized and autonomous harvesting equipment to produce the best yield possible from a given stretch of land. The innovation is very important when... |
12 August 2009
05:47 GMT |
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With the threat of global warming turning more into reality each single day, plant bioengineers everywhere are working around the clock on creating crop varieties able to withstand prolonged drought and still yield sufficient produce to sustain a booming human population. In a related line of research, Australian exp... |
8 July 2009
06:51 GMT |
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Experts have recently been horrified to learn that some pests have developed immunity to a lot of chemicals that genetically modified (GM) crops produce, for the specific purpose of keeping the former away. The find is potentially devastating because food supplies of a certain type could be in peril around the world,... |
8 July 2009
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In a new study funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF), researchers from the University of California in Davis (UCD), working together with colleagues from Denmark and the University of California in Berkeley (UCB), have discovered a group of proteins in plants that... |
29 June 2009
06:34 GMT |
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According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), rice is the most important staple food in the world, and is the number-one source of food for billions of people. In countries in tropical Latin America, the West Indies, East, South and Southeast Asia, there is no other crop plant that o... |
25 June 2009
06:15 GMT |
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Undoubtedly, the most defining moment for us as humans was when some of our ancestors decided to start domesticating wild animals, and settling down on a certain land. They started cultivating a relatively small variety of plants, but arguably what allowed them to remain put and survive in the then-inhospitable lands... |
23 June 2009
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At a time when the world is facing growing food shortages, and droughts or floods have driven the price of basic food out of the reach of millions of people, the American space agency is working together with local authorities to supply governments with the most accurate estimates of soil traits. Based entirely on sa... |
27 May 2009
10:56 GMT |
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Researchers believe they might have discovered the element that triggers the formation of massive locust swarms that pose an incredible threat to crops and plantations worldwide. Upon analyzing what makes single grasshoppers come together to form an enormous group, a team of scientists identified serotonin, the hormo... |
30 January 2009
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The Disaster Monitoring Constellation (DMC) space system is a network of five satellites in sun-synchronous orbits around the Earth, which provide reliable photos in various light wavelengths of the same location once or twice per day. They are used for a variety of tasks, from monitoring drug production, deforestati... |
19 January 2009
08:52 GMT |
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In an experiment devised to see if human hair has the potential to become the next best fertilizer for various types of crops, researchers at the Mississippi State University (MSU) compared the effects that four types of treatments had on four types of plants, including lettuce, wormwood, yellow poppy and feverfew. T... |
7 January 2009
08:31 GMT |
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In the aftermath of three devastating hurricanes that swept Cuba and left the country with just 70 percent of its regular food supplies, worries have increased among the population that the Communist government might now have no more resources to feed its people. However, a tactic that was set in place when the Sovie... |
16 December 2008
04:50 GMT |
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Though the decline in bee populations has been well-documented worldwide, a recent study in the prestigious journal Current Biology says that the food supply is not yet in any immediate danger. Modern agricultural practices have constantly increased yields since the 1960s, when the food production finally surpassed d... |
11 November 2008
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