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Turf study to monitor runoff, establish fertilizer management practices
Sep 12, 2012 (SPX)
Improperly applied fertilizer to newly placed sod may result in nutrient runoff into the water supply, but just when is the best time to apply fertilizer and wh...
China probes claims children fed modified rice
Sep 11, 2012 (AFP)
China is investigating whether more than 20 children were fed genetically modified rice in a project that involved Chinese and US researchers, state media said ...
Wild bees: Champions for food security and protecting our biodiversity
Sep 07, 2012 (SPX)
Pollinating insects contribute to agricultural production in 150 (84%) European crops. These crops depend partly or entirely upon insects for their pollination ...
Spinach power gets a big boost
Sep 06, 2012 (SPX)
An interdisciplinary team of researchers at Vanderbilt University have developed a way to combine the photosynthetic protein that converts light into electroche...
Little evidence of health benefits from organic foods
Sep 06, 2012 (SPX)
You're in the supermarket eyeing a basket of sweet, juicy plums. You reach for the conventionally grown stone fruit, then decide to spring the extra $1/pound fo...
Bees, fruits and money
Sep 06, 2012 (SPX)
Two thirds of the crops humans use for food production and the majority of wild plant species depend on pollination by insects such as bees and hover-flies. Thi...
US fruit giant Dole settles 38 pesticide complaints
Sep 06, 2012 (AFP)
US fruit giant Dole has reached an agreement to terminate 38 lawsuits filed in the United States and Nicaragua alleging pesticide-related injuries, the company ...
No-Till Farming Helps Capture Snow and Soil Water
Sep 05, 2012 (SPX)
A smooth blanket of snow in the winter can help boost dryland crop productivity in the summer, and no-till management is one way to ensure that blanket coverage...
Unexpected finding shows climate change complexities in soil
Sep 05, 2012 (SPX)
In a surprising finding, North Carolina State University researchers have shown that certain underground organisms thought to promote chemical interactions that...
Oxfam warns food prices to soar due to climate change
Sep 05, 2012 (AFP)
Staple food prices may double within the next two decades due to climate change and an increase in extreme weather including droughts and hurricanes, the anti-p...
Study offers new hope for increasing global food production, reducing environmental impact of agriculture
Sep 05, 2012 (SPX)
Can we have enough to eat and a healthy environment, too? Yes-if we're smart about it, suggests a study published in Nature this week by a team of researchers f...
Champagne drought threatens
Sep 05, 2012 (AFP)
First the bad news: there is going to be a lot less champagne to go round this year. The good news: what there is could be outstanding. After one of the worst s...
Cameroon palm oil plantation deal 'must be stopped'
Sep 05, 2012 (AFP)
A large palm oil plantation project in development in Cameroon since 2010 will put livelihoods and ecosystems in peril if allowed to continue, a US-based think-...
Discovery may help protect crops from stressors
Sep 04, 2012 (SPX)
Scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have discovered a key genetic switch by which plants control their response to ethylene gas, a natural p...
Uncoiling the cucumber's enigma
Sep 03, 2012 (SPX)
Captivated by a strange coiling behavior in the grasping tendrils of the cucumber plant, researchers at Harvard University have characterized a new type of spri...
No-till could help maintain crop yields despite climate change
Aug 30, 2012 (SPX)
Reducing tillage for some Central Great Plains crops could help conserve water and reduce losses caused by climate change, according to studies at the U.S. Depa...
World can increase food supply, study says
Aug 30, 2012 (UPI)
Food production for a growing global population can be increased with a reduction in the environmental impact of agriculture, U.S. and Canadian researchers say....
Brazil's Rousseff vows to stand firm on environment defense
Aug 30, 2012 (AFP)
Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff warned Thursday that she will not all environmental protection to be eroded, after a pro-agribusiness congressional panel back...
Behind closed doors
Aug 29, 2012 (SPX)
With the help of beneficial bacteria, plants can slam the door when disease pathogens come knocking, University of Delaware researchers have discovered. A scien...
Plants unpack winter coats when days get shorter
Aug 28, 2012 (SPX)
Mechanisms that protect plants from freezing are placed in storage during the summer and wisely unpacked when days get shorter. In the current issue of the Proc...
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