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Wearable sensors for plants enable measurements of water use in crops
Jan 09, 2018 (SPX)
This was no technical, precise, poster talk. This was a researcher interested in working with new, low-cost, easily produced, graphene-based, sensors-on-tape th...
New research reveals how gardeners can dig for health, not injury
Jan 09, 2018 (SPX)
The results, published in the journal HortTechnology, reveal the risks that the nation's 27 million gardeners might be running if using a bad digging technique ...
Self-defense for plants
Jan 09, 2018 (SPX)
The work, which appeared in Nature Communications on December 19, 2017, sheds light on plant resistance generally and could lead to strategies to boost plants' ...
Predicting the effect of climate change on crop yields
Jan 09, 2018 (SPX)
Researchers from University of Illinois are attempting to bridge two types of computational crop models to become more reliable predictors of crop production in...
Genetic mechanism that could enhance yield in cereal crops
Jan 09, 2018 (SPX)
The Eveland laboratory's research findings, "Brassinosteroids modulate meristem fate and differentiation of unique inflorescence morphology in Setaria viridis",...
French beef producers cheer chance for return to China
Jan 09, 2018 (AFP)
The accord, which would allow French producers back into the huge Chinese market within six months, came as Macron made a three-day visit to the country, his fi...
Did ancient irrigation technology travel Silk Road?
Jan 09, 2018 (SPX)
Lost for centuries in the barren foothills of China's Tian Shan Mountains, the ancient farming community remains hidden in plain sight - appearing little more t...
'World's ugliest pig' spotted in Indonesia
Jan 05, 2018 (AFP)
The number of endangered Javan warty pigs -- males are distinguished by large warts on their faces -- has plunged since the early 1980s due to hunting and fores...
Lightening Up Soybean Leaves May Boost Food Supply
Jan 05, 2018 (JPL)
A science team led by Donald Ort of the University of Illinois and research scientist Berkley Walker of the University of Dusseldorf, Germany, combined detailed...
UK to continue farm subsidies for five years after Brexit
Jan 04, 2018 (AFP)
British farmers receive around 3 billion pounds (3.37 billion euros, $4.06 billion) a year from the bloc's Common Agricultural Policy, of which around three-qua...
Sao Tome: Rainforests, chocolate and millionaires
Jan 04, 2018 (AFP)
- TROPICAL: Archipelago of small islands located off the western coast of central Africa in the Gulf of Guinea. Named after the two main islands, Sao Tome and P...
Natural therapy: Hong Kong's mountain warriors
Jan 02, 2018 (AFP)
With some of the world's highest property prices, many can only afford tiny apartments, some living in infamous "cage homes" big enough only for a bed. Hong Kon...
Speed breeding technique sows seeds of new green revolution
Jan 02, 2018 (SPX)
Pioneering new technology is set to accelerate the global quest for crop improvement in a development which echoes the Green Revolution of the post war period. ...
Wheat disease breakthrough to help feed the world
Dec 28, 2017 (SPX)
In a world first, science has leaped a step ahead of an old foe that has recently re-emerged in some parts of the world, where it has devastated crops because o...
Rust stemmed for wheat
Dec 28, 2017 (SPX)
The team, from Australia, the US and the UK, identified a gene in the fungus that triggers resistance in the host plant and have begun to understand how the fun...
Unexpected agricultural production allowed pre-Hispanic society to flourish in arid Andes
Dec 28, 2017 (SPX)
Close to these villages, numerous archaeological settlement sites bear witness to an ancient human occupation, dating from between the 13th and 15th centuries. ...
Breakthrough pulls science ahead in race against devastating wheat disease
Dec 28, 2017 (SPX)
Stem rust, historically the most dangerous pathogen of wheat is caused by the fungus Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici (Pgt). A particularly destructive form of ...
Soil science adds many complexities to climate modeling
Dec 28, 2017 (SPX)
Quite the contrary: If warmth is accompanied by drought, the soil animals eat even less. In order to improve the predictive power of climate models, it is now c...
Florida orange industry hit by hurricane, disease
Dec 24, 2017 (AFP)
Forecasters are projecting a yield of 46 million boxes of oranges for the 2017-2018 Florida orange season, a drop of 33 percent from last year and the lowest ou...
Oil palm plantations threaten protected Malaysian forests in unexpected ways
Dec 21, 2017 (UPI)
According to a new study published in the journal Nature Communications, the plantations are fueling a wild boar population boom, yielding significant ecologica...
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