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A culinary expedition with Peru's intrepid top chef
Jul 08, 2016 (AFP)
As a teenager on the streets of Lima, Virgilio Martinez aspired to a life of extremes, hoping to become a professional skateboarder. When a fractured collarbone...
Zimbabwe farmers benefit from China agricultural technology transfer
Jul 08, 2016 (SPX)
Zimbabwean farmers and students are benefiting from the China-Aid Agricultural Technology Demonstration Center (CATDC), 27 km north-west of Harare, where they a...
Characteristics improving bean resistance to drought identified
Jul 07, 2016 (SPX)
The common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) is the most important food legume in the tropics. It is an inexpensive source of proteins and minerals for almost 400 mi...
A new tool to study plant cell biomechanics
Jul 07, 2016 (SPX)
We know that within every living plant there are millions of cells working together in a wonderfully complex harmony. But what we don't know is, within each of ...
Decoding the genome of the olive tree
Jul 06, 2016 (SPX)
The olive was one of the first trees to be domesticated in the history of mankind, probably some 6,000 years ago. A Mediterranean emblem par excellence, it is o...
Study finds that plant growth responses to high carbon dioxide depend on symbiotic fungi
Jul 03, 2016 (SPX)
Research by an international team of environmental scientists from the United Kingdom, Belgium and United States, including Indiana University, has found that p...
Conservation key to curbing emissions from palm oil agriculture in Africa
Jul 03, 2016 (SPX)
As oil palm production expands from Southeast Asia into Central Africa, a new Duke University-led study warns that converting Africa's tropical forests into mon...
New study compares transportation energy efficiency of local and conventional food
Jul 03, 2016 (SPX)
Two researchers at the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture find that farmers located closer to city centers seem to have a locational advantage in ...
New farming strategies can help prevent soil runoff while maintaining high crop yields
Jul 03, 2016 (SPX)
Soil and nutrient loss and runoff from agricultural fields are major problems environmentally and economically in the U.S. and globally. After heavy spring rain...
Could ancient wheat be the future of food?
Jun 30, 2016 (SPX)
Researchers believe untapped consumer markets exist for ancient foods such as einkorn, emmer, and spelt, which fed large swaths of the world's population for th...
Nobel winners slam Greenpeace on GMO crops
Jun 30, 2016 (AFP)
About a third of living Nobel laureates -- 108 at last count -- have signed an open letter Thursday which attacks Greenpeace for campaigning against genetically...
Four newly identified genes could improve rice
Jun 30, 2016 (SPX)
A Japanese research team have applied a method used in human genetic analysis to rice and rapidly discovered four new genes that are potentially significant for...
U of T Mississauga professor discovers new origins for farmed rice
Jun 29, 2016 (SPX)
Chew on this: rice farming is a far older practice than we knew. In fact, the oldest evidence of domesticated rice has just been found in China, and it's about ...
'Amazing protein diversity' is discovered in the maize plant
Jun 29, 2016 (SPX)
The genome of the corn plant - or maize, as it's called almost everywhere except the US - "is a lot more exciting" than scientists have previously believed. So ...
Herbicides used widely on federal, tribal wildlands, study says
Jun 29, 2016 (UPI)
Although the amount of herbicides used on croplands is reported and known, recent research reveals huge amounts of the plant-killing chemicals are used on publi...
How squash agriculture spread bees in pre-Columbian North America
Jun 24, 2016 (SPX)
Using genetic markers, researchers have for the first time shown how cultivating a specific crop led to the expansion of a pollinator species. In this case, the...
Immense species richness of bacterial-eating microorganisms discovered in soil
Jun 24, 2016 (SPX)
Typically ignored, the millions of microorganisms that we tread upon daily play a major role in the decomposition of soil matter - one that is of far greater si...
Crop breeding is not keeping pace with climate change
Jun 24, 2016 (SPX)
Crop yields will fall within the next decade due to climate change unless immediate action is taken to speed up the introduction of new and improved varieties, ...
Better soil data key for future food security
Jun 24, 2016 (SPX)
To project how much food can be produced in the future, researchers use agricultural models that estimate crop yield, or how much of a crop can be produced in a...
Invasive species could cause billions in damages to agriculture
Jun 23, 2016 (SPX)
Invasive insects and pathogens could be a multi-billion- dollar threat to global agriculture and developing countries may be the biggest target, according to a ...
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