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Blue-green algae promises to help boost food crop yields
Sep 10, 2018 (SPX)
Lead researcher Dr Ben Long from ANU said the discovery was a major leap forward in improving the way crops convert carbon dioxide, water and sunlight into ener...
Urban vineyards: Parisians pick grapes for city vintages
Sep 04, 2018 (AFP)
Around 20 people armed with pruning shears snipped, picked and carried in the Parc Georges-Brassens in the south of the French capital on Tuesday after respondi...
Brazil court lifts ban on glyphosate weedkiller
Sep 03, 2018 (AFP)
Federal appeals court judge Kassio Marques ruled that "nothing justified" the suspension by a lower court, saying it had been abruptly imposed "without previous...
Hong Kong dim sum favourite faces uncertain future
Sep 02, 2018 (AFP)
Lin Heung's traditional homemade dishes, including cha siu bao (barbecue pork buns), har gow (shrimp dumplings) and ma lai go (Cantonese sponge cake), have earn...
Epigenome of bread wheat mapped to piece together its genetic heritage
Aug 31, 2018 (SPX)
Exploring one hundred different wheat lines worldwide, the research team led by the Earlham Institute in collaboration with Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen, Universit...
France's ban on bee-killing pesticides begins Saturday
Aug 30, 2018 (AFP)
The move has been hailed by beekeepers and environmental activists, but lamented by cereal and sugar beet farmers who claim there are no effective alternatives ...
Angry French farmers sow Chinese-owned field in investor protest
Aug 30, 2018 (AFP)
More than 100 farmers swarmed on a Chinese-owned field in the Indre region of central France on Wednesday, occupying it in protest at what they say is financial...
Global warming will make insects hungrier, eating up key crops: study
Aug 30, 2018 (AFP)
Rising temperatures will stimulate insects' appetites -- and make some prone to reproducing more quickly -- spelling danger for key staples like wheat, corn and...
Environmentally friendly farming practices used by a third of global farms
Aug 29, 2018 (SPX)
The researchers analyzed farms that use some form of "sustainable intensification," a term for various practices, including organic farming, that use land, wate...
Bees get hooked on harmful pesticide: study
Aug 28, 2018 (AFP)
In experiments, researchers showed that bees initially put off by sugar water containing neonicotinoids -- the most widely-used class of insecticide worldwide -...
'No grass': Europe's livestock sector stricken by drought
Aug 26, 2018 (AFP)
Mediterranean countries long ago adapted their farming practices to little rain, but this year it is the north of Europe confronting a widespread drought that c...
French tomato grower takes on Monsanto over weedkiller
Aug 24, 2018 (AFP)
"That's a beef tomato, they're delicious," he says, showing off his produce which, he stresses, is 100 percent organic. But since he was treated for prostate ca...
The wheat code is finally cracked
Aug 23, 2018 (SPX)
The research article - authored by more than 200 scientists from 73 research institutions in 20 countries - presents the reference genome of the bread wheat var...
Study: Human wastewater valuable to global agriculture, economics
Aug 22, 2018 (SPX)
Cities produce and must manage huge quantities of wastewater. Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a model to clarify wh...
Plant biodiversity essential to bee health
Aug 22, 2018 (UPI)
Many studies have detailed the threats -- pesticide use, habitat loss and monoculture farming -- facing honey bees, pollinators essential to global food systems...
Bringing home the bacon: China pork braces for trade war blues
Aug 22, 2018 (AFP)
The price of the powdery grain mixture, which is one-fifth soy, has risen since China imposed 25-percent duties on US soybean imports last month, escalating a t...
How do plants rest photosynthetic activity at night?
Aug 20, 2018 (SPX)
They do this by a process called 'redox regulation'--the activation and deactivation of proteins via changes in their redox (reduction/oxidation) states. What h...
Vietnam's caged bears dying off as bile prices plummet
Aug 17, 2018 (AFP)
The animals are among the lucky few to be rescued in a country where hundreds of bears are feared to have been killed or starved to death as the cost of once-va...
Scientists detail full genome of wheat for first time
Aug 16, 2018 (AFP)
Wheat feeds more than a third of the global human population, providing more protein than meat in the human diet and making about one-fifth of calories consumed...
New pesticide may harm bees as much as those to be replaced
Aug 15, 2018 (AFP)
In experiments, the ability of bumblebees to reproduce, and the rate at which their colonies grow, were both compromised by the new sulfoximine-based insecticid...
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