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Fungus uses light to invade, attack wheat plants
Apr 12, 2017 (UPI)
According to scientists at the University of Western Australia, Parastagonospora nodorum produces an herbicide compound called elsinochrome which destroys plant...
Colombia forces struggle to root out coca
Apr 12, 2017 (AFP)
Colombia is ranked by the United Nations as the world's biggest producer of coca -- the raw material for cocaine -- which has funded armed groups in the more th...
A step forward to making crops drought tolerant
Apr 10, 2017 (SPX)
QUT researchers are part of an international consortium of researchers whose work hopes to future-proof crops against the impacts of global climate change. The ...
Archaeologists untangle the complex food webs of the Ancestral Puebloans
Apr 10, 2017 (UPI)
By reconstructing the complex food webs of Ancestral Puebloan southwestern United States, researchers hope to yield insights into the the ecological consequence...
Australia wheat board chairman punished over Iraq 'kickback'
Apr 10, 2017 (AFP)
Trevor Flugge was found by the Victorian Supreme Court in December to have breached his duties as a director of the Australian Wheat Board (AWB), after corporat...
New rice fights off drought
Apr 10, 2017 (SPX)
Scientists at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS) have developed strains of rice that are resistant to drought in real-world situations. Pu...
At least nine beetle species carry fungus threatening avocados
Apr 10, 2017 (AFP)
When researchers first began studying the spread of laurel wilt, they blamed the redbay ambrosia beetle. But further investigation suggested several more beetle...
Study: Nearly 2 billion people rely on food grown elsewhere
Apr 10, 2017 (UPI)
The study, conducted by scientists at Aalto University in the Netherlands, is one of the first to analyze the connections between resource scarcity, population ...
So sheep may safely graze
Apr 10, 2017 (SPX)
Fast forward a few centuries, where now, from a large genome study, a team of French and Argentinian scientists may have successfully identified the mutations b...
New museum reveals power of poo in Italy
Apr 07, 2017 (AFP)
It may pong, but Italy's "Shit Museum" has the whiff of success about it: here in Castelbosco, farmers are transforming sloppy cowpats into plates you can eat o...
Chinese students imbibe secrets of Burgundy winemaking
Apr 06, 2017 (AFP)
Chen Yanfen swirls a glass of Burgundy wine, noting its ruby red robe and fruity bouquet before taking her first sip. She is part of a group of Chinese students...
EU approves Syngenta-ChemChina mega-deal
Apr 05, 2017 (AFP)
EU antitrust authorities on Wednesday cleared state-owned ChemChina's 40-billion-euro ($43-billion) takeover of Swiss seeds giant Syngenta, the biggest ever ove...
New global report on food crisis
Apr 04, 2017 (SPX)
Despite international efforts to address food insecurity, around 108 million people in the world were severely food insecure in 2016, a dramatic increase compar...
A slice of luxury: Hong Kong's high-end fruit fad
Apr 04, 2017 (AFP)
It might be a healthy food choice, but Hong Kong's latest fruit fad is doing serious damage to shoppers' wallets. From luxury supermarkets to outdoor stalls, ex...
A 'bionic leaf' could help feed the world
Apr 04, 2017 (SPX)
In the second half of the 20th century, the mass use of fertilizer was part of an agricultural boom called the "green revolution" that was largely credited with...
Domesticated rice goes rogue
Apr 04, 2017 (SPX)
A new study in the April 3 issue of Nature Genetics describes an ancestry.com-type adventure that reveals the deep history of a family, including some disreputa...
New rice strain could help farmers predetermine harvest time
Apr 02, 2017 (SPX)
A new strain of rice that flowers within a certain period of time after being sprayed with commercial chemicals commonly used to protect rice from fungal diseas...
Newly characterized protein has potential to save US farmers millions annually
Apr 02, 2017 (SPX)
Instead of turning carbon into food, many plants accidentally make a plant-toxic compound during photosynthesis that is recycled through a process called photor...
Dairy farmers should rethink a cow's curfew
Apr 02, 2017 (SPX)
Dairy cows housed indoors want to break curfew and roam free, suggests new research from the University of British Columbia, published in Scientific Reports. Th...
Mathematical framework explains diverse plant stem forms
Apr 02, 2017 (SPX)
It is well known that as plants grow, their stems and shoots respond to outside signals like light and gravity. But if plants all have similar stimuli, why are ...
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