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Plants also suffer from stress
Sep 08, 2015 (SPX)
High salt in soil dramatically stresses plant biology and reduces the growth and yield of crops. Now researchers have found specific proteins that allow plants ...
Fourth wheat gene is key to flowering and climate adaptation
Sep 08, 2015 (SPX)
In the game of wheat genetics, Jorge Dubcovsky's laboratory at UC Davis has hit a grand slam, unveiling for the fourth time in a dozen years a gene that governs...
Could more intensive farming practices benefit tropical birds?
Sep 07, 2015 (SPX)
The world is facing an extinction crisis as more and more forests are converted into farmland. But does it help when farms share the land with birds and other a...
Crop rotation boosts soil microbes, benefits plant growth
Sep 07, 2015 (SPX)
In the first study of its kind, new research from the University of New Hampshire shows that crop rotations, in isolation from other management factors, can inc...
New peer-reviewed study rewrites genetic history of sheep
Sep 02, 2015 (SPX)
At a time when the price of mutton is climbing and wool crashing, a groundbreaking new study has used advanced genetic sequencing technology to rewrite the hist...
Saving oysters by digging up their past
Sep 02, 2015 (SPX)
Restoring oyster reefs is not an easy task, but by digging deep and examining centuries-old reefs, marine restoration professionals may stand a better chance at...
Repurposing would-be wasted food to feed the hungry and create jobs
Sep 01, 2015 (SPX)
"If I offered you a bruised banana, you probably wouldn't be interested," said Jonathan Deutsch, PhD, director of Drexel University's Center for Hospitality and...
New fungi behind emerging wheat disease
Sep 01, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers have unraveled the mystery cause of the emerging wheat disease White Grain Disorder. Scientists at the Wheat Biosecurity Laboratory at The Australia...
Humus depletion induced by climate change
Aug 31, 2015 (SPX)
The yields of many important crops in Europe have been stagnating since the 1990s. As a result, the input of organic matter into the soil - the crucial source f...
Where bread began
Aug 31, 2015 (SPX)
A group of intrepid Israeli researchers recently went back to the dawn of the Stone Age to make lunch. Using 12,500-year-old conical mortars carved into bedrock...
Old World forage grass making a comeback in the Midwest
Aug 28, 2015 (UPI)
A long ignored grass species is poised for a comeback. Federal researchers are urging cattle farmers in the Upper Midwest to reintroduce a fescue variety forgot...
Visual proof kids are tossing mandated fruits and veggies in trash
Aug 27, 2015 (SPX)
Less than a month before Congress votes on whether to reauthorize a controversial program mandating healthier school lunches, a new study confirms the suspicion...
23 dead as Madagascar troops battle cattle rustlers
Aug 27, 2015 (AFP)
Deadly clashes between troops and armed cattle rustlers on the Indian Ocean island of Madagascar have left 23 people dead, the army said on Thursday. Eight of t...
Israel to use crop, water technology to win friends in Africa
Aug 27, 2015 (AFP)
Israel wants to use its cutting-edge agricultural technology to improve food production -- and win friends -- across Africa, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu s...
A community of soil bacteria saves plants from root rot
Aug 27, 2015 (SPX)
Root bacteria are known to form symbiotic relationships with plants by improving the plants' supply of nutrients. Yet as scientists at the Max Planck Institute ...
Sequencing of barley genome achieves new milestone
Aug 27, 2015 (SPX)
Barley, a widely grown cereal grain commonly used to make beer and other alcoholic beverages, possesses a large and highly repetitive genome that is difficult t...
Entomologists sniff out new stink bug to help soybean farmers control damage
Aug 25, 2015 (SPX)
Entomologists in Texas got a whiff of a new stink bug doing economic damage to soybeans in Texas and are developing ways to help farmers combat it, according to...
Green light of hope to overcome Striga-triggered food insecurity in Africa
Aug 25, 2015 (SPX)
A molecular approach has been used to identify the protein responsible for germination of Striga seeds through visualization by green fluorescence. Striga, a pa...
Qatar hails veggie trial success
Aug 25, 2015 (AFP)
Desert nation Qatar will use "cutting-edge technology" to grow up to 70 percent of its own vegetables by 2023 -- a four-fold increase, officials from Doha's big...
Demand for coffee can create ecological, economic rift with poorer nations
Aug 25, 2015 (SPX)
The explosion in worldwide coffee consumption in the past two decades has generally not benefitted farmers of coffee beans in poorer nations along the equator. ...
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