News tagged with agricultural process

UA pursues links between worms and their bacteria

The NemaSym Research Coordination Network is an opportunity for scientists to collaborate on nematode research.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 21, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Breeding better grasses for food and fuel

Researchers from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) Sustainable Bioenergy Centre (BSBEC) have discovered a family of genes that could help us breed grasses with improved properties for diet ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers moving closer to a soluble solution to Haber-Bocsh process

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Haber-Bosch process, known throughout the world as the means by which ammonia is made for use in fertilizer, has been under study for at least as long as the agricultural revolution has ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Nov 11, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 4 | with audio podcast report

Biologists identify light-regulated mechanism in cyanobacteria as aid to optimizing photosynthesis

(PhysOrg.com) -- Indiana University biologists have uncovered how a control system works in producing the important light-harvesting antennae that power photosynthesis in cyanobacteria, the microorganisms ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 4

Manipulating plants' circadian clock may make all-season crops possible

Yale University researchers have identified a key genetic gear that keeps the circadian clock of plants ticking, a finding that could have broad implications for global agriculture.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Discovery of DNA silencing mechanism reveals how plants protect their genome

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the RIKEN Plant Science Center (PSC) have clarified a key epigenetic mechanism by which an enzyme in the model plant Arabidopsis protects cells from harmful DNA elements. Published ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New way of removing excess nitrogen from the environment

Excess nitrogen from agricultural and urban lands is contaminating groundwater, streams, lakes and estuaries, where it causes harmful algal blooms and contributes to fish kills.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 01, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Researchers help identify cows that gain more while eating less

With more than 2 million cows on 68,000 farms, Missouri is the third-largest beef producer in the nation. Due to rising feed prices, farmers are struggling to provide feed for the cows that contribute more ...

Biology / Other

created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

In The World: A better way to beat around the bush

(PhysOrg.com) -- Many residents of New Longoro, a small village in the countryside of Ghana, are small-scale farmers, and one of the crops they grow is groundnuts — what we call peanuts. But harvesting and ...

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 25, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0