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Sequencing hundreds of nuclear genes in the sunflower family now possible
Feb 25, 2014 (SPX)
Advances in DNA sequencing technologies have enormous potential for the plant sciences. With genome-scale data sets obtained from these new technologies, resear...
BGU Researchers Reveal that Organic Agriculture Can Pollute Groundwater
Feb 24, 2014 (SPX)
Researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), using specialized monitoring technology, have determined that intensive organic agriculture can cause...
Nitrogen-tracking tools for better crops and less pollution
Feb 24, 2014 (SPX)
As every gardner knows, nitrogen is crucial for a plant's growth. But nitrogen absorption is inefficient. This means that on the scale of food crops, adding sig...
Agricultural productivity loss as a result of soil and crop damage from flooding
Feb 24, 2014 (SPX)
The Cache River Basin, which once drained more than 614,100 acres across six southern Illinois counties, has changed substantively since the ancient Ohio River ...
French organic winemaker in court for shunning pesticides
Feb 23, 2014 (AFP)
A winemaker in France's Burgundy region appears in court Monday for refusing to use pesticides in his organic vineyard despite a government order. Environmental...
Fertilization destabilizes global grassland ecosystems
Feb 19, 2014 (SPX)
A new study led by University of Minnesota researchers demonstrates that fertilization of natural grasslands -- either intentionally or unintentionally as a sid...
Honeybees may be making wild cousins ill: study
Feb 19, 2014 (AFP)
Domesticated honeybees, reeling from disease, are probably infecting wild bumblebees whose pollination is vital for farmers around the world, a study said Wedne...
Environmental impact of Ontario corn production assessed
Feb 18, 2014 (SPX)
Researchers at the University of Guelph examined the energy use and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with corn production in Ontario. Their findings ar...
SPC Ardmona's bailout is crucial given China's food safety record
Feb 18, 2014 (TCM)
SPC Ardmona's $22 million lifeline from the Victorian government seems to have saved Australia's largest food packaging company. Yet the firm's recent tribulati...
Top-down and bottom-up approach needed to conserve potato agrobiodiversity
Feb 18, 2014 (SPX)
Mashed, smashed and fried, Americans love potatoes, but only a few varieties are grown in much of North American agriculture. In South America, where potatoes o...
Dartmouth study shows US Southwest irrigation system facing decline after four centuries
Feb 18, 2014 (SPX)
Communal irrigation systems known as acequias that have sustained farming villages in the arid southwestern United States for centuries are struggling because o...
Archaeologists lend long-term perspective to food security and climate shock
Feb 18, 2014 (SPX)
What role does pre-existing vulnerabilities play for people who experience a climate shock? Does it amplify the effects of the climate shock or is effect neglig...
Drifting herbicides produce uncertain effects
Feb 18, 2014 (SPX)
Farmers should take extra precautions so drifting herbicides do not create unintended consequences on neighboring fields and farms, according to agricultural re...
Hidden crop pest threat to poorer nations revealed
Feb 18, 2014 (SPX)
The abundance of crop pests in developing countries may be greatly underestimated, posing a significant threat to some of the world's most important food produc...
Hong Kong extends ban on live poultry imports from mainland
Feb 18, 2014 (AFP)
Hong Kong officials said Tuesday they were extending for four months a ban on live poultry imports from mainland China to guard against the potentially deadly H...
Worldwide study finds that fertilizer destabilizes grasslands
Feb 18, 2014 (SPX)
Fertilizer could be too much of a good thing for the world's grasslands, according to study findings to be published online by the journal Nature. The worldwide...
Resistance shapes the discovery of new insecticides
Feb 18, 2014 (TCM)
Recent news around the world has focused on the dangers of antibiotic resistance. But what of another type of resistance which can also have a huge impact on th...
Making biodiverse agriculture part of a food-secure future
Feb 18, 2014 (SPX)
Is biodiverse agriculture an anachronism? Or is it a vital part of a food-secure future? Given the need to feed an estimated 2.4 billion more people by the year...
EU plans more tests for horsemeat in food
Feb 14, 2014 (AFP)
The EU will carry out a second round of tests to see if horsemeat is being passed off as beef, after a scandal last year rocked public confidence in food safety...
Danone says will double stake in Chinese milk firm Mengniu
Feb 12, 2014 (AFP)
French food group Danone is to invest 486 million euros ($662 million) to raise its stake in leading Chinese milk-product group Mengniu from 4.0 to 9.9 percent,...
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