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More tomatoes, faster: Accelerating tomato engineering

Sep 01, 2016 (SPX)

Tomatoes are already an ideal model species for plant research, but scientists at the Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI) just made them even more useful by cutting ...

Plants found to regulate leaf temperature to boost carbon uptake

Sep 01, 2016 (SPX)

A new study has found that plants regulate their leaf temperature with some independence from the surrounding air temperature, a trait that increases carbon upt...

Making pesticide droplets less bouncy could cut agricultural runoff

Sep 01, 2016 (SPX)

When farmers spray their fields with pesticides or other treatments, only 2 percent of the spray sticks to the plants. A significant portion of it typically bou...

'Electric' sheep models help scientists study sheltering sheep

Sep 01, 2016 (UPI)

Keeping livestock comfortable in the face of ever-changing and often adverse weather is a constant struggle. The more comfortable the animals, the more producti...

Managing invasive weeds in Botswana

Aug 29, 2016 (SPX)

Teams of scientists and labourers from the Department of Water Affairs in Botswana undertook a decades old challenge since the 1970s to combat invasive weeds in...

Bonfires light up Baltic coast, with tech-savvy twist

Aug 27, 2016 (AFP)

Hundreds of bonfires dotted the Baltic Sea coast of Estonia Saturday night, a centuries-old maritime tradition to guide seafarers now celebrated with a tech-sav...

Researchers image roots in the ground

Aug 26, 2016 (SPX)

It's a familiar hazard of vacation time: While you're conspicuously absent, your colleagues in the office forget to water and fertilize the plants - often leavi...

Molecular signature shows plants are adapting to increasing CO2

Aug 26, 2016 (SPX)

Plants are adapting to increasing atmospheric CO2 according to a new study from the University of Southampton. The research, published in the journal Global Cha...

Trade liberalization could buffer economic losses in agriculture

Aug 26, 2016 (SPX)

Global warming could create substantial economic damage in agriculture, a new study conducted by a team of scientists of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impac...

Cameroon must halt rubber plantation project: Greenpeace

Aug 25, 2016 (AFP)

Greenpeace has urged Cameroon to suspend a major rubber plantation project in the country's south because of large-scale deforestation that threatens a nearby U...

Stormy outlook hits French wine output

Aug 25, 2016 (AFP)

Fierce storms which hit France in April will help to push wine production down almost 10 percent this year, the ministry of agriculture said Thursday. Unseasona...

Story of how meat was raised can alter tasting experience

Aug 24, 2016 (UPI)

When psychologists at Northeastern University offered taste testers meat samples with background stories -- where the meat came form and how it was raised -- co...

China's COFCO buys rest of Dutch commodity trader

Aug 24, 2016 (AFP)

China's state-owned grain giant COFCO will buy out minority shareholders in Netherlands-based commodity trader Nidera and take full ownership of the company, it...

Study reveals genetic history of the cultivated strawberry

Aug 23, 2016 (UPI)

It took four years, but researchers at the University of New Hampshire have finally finished mapping the genetic history of the cultivated strawberry. Scientist...

The fuel for Hong Kong's engine: milk tea

Aug 21, 2016 (AFP)

Some cities are fuelled by coffee. In Hong Kong, it's milk tea that keeps things running -- a potent nostalgia-infused caffeine hit, with fierce competition to ...

Flowering meadows benefit humankind

Aug 19, 2016 (SPX)

The more it swarms, crawls and flies the better it is for humans. This is the finding of a study published in "Nature". More than 60 researchers from a number o...

Researchers discover a special power in wheat

Aug 19, 2016 (SPX)

A new photosynthesis discovery at The University of Queensland may help breed faster-growing wheat crops that are better adapted to hotter, drier climates. A re...

New method for quantifying methane emissions from manure management

Aug 19, 2016 (SPX)

It is currently not possible to quantify emissions of methane from livestock manure. This is a significant problem, in particular at a time where the EU Commisi...

Plant response to carbon dioxide emissions depends on their neighbors

Aug 18, 2016 (SPX)

Plant species that have evolved to withstand elevated levels of carbon dioxide grow poorly when moved to a plant community with a different make up, according t...

Reduced ecosystem functions in oil palm plantations

Aug 18, 2016 (SPX)

So far, research on the environmental impact of oil palm cultivation has been scattered and patchy. Synthesizing about 1000 scientific studies and reports, the ...