News tagged with food crops
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Researchers introducing sustainable agriculture practices to improve food security
Two Virginia Tech professors are leading research teams that will work with scientists and small-scale farmers in South America and the Caribbean to increase food production, improve soil quality, and reduce ...
Mar 15, 2010 |
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Arctic Seed Vault becomes world's most diverse collection of crop diversity
Days after celebrating its second anniversary, the Svalbard "Doomsday" Global Seed Vault is receiving this week thousands of new seeds that will push its collection to more than half a million unique samples, ...
Mar 10, 2010 |
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Perfect peas to push profits and cut carbon
Scientists, pea breeders and the food industry are collaborating to discover how taste and tenderness can be determined by biochemistry and genetics. They will work together to hone the make-up of a perfect ...
Mar 08, 2010 |
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Carnegie Mellon's Chris Hendrickson tracks water use
Carnegie Mellon University researchers are tracking how US industry uses scarce water resources.
Feb 25, 2010 |
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LLNL research at Marshall Islands could lead to resettlement
Through Laboratory soil cleanup methods, residents of Bikini, Enjebi and Rongelap Islands - where nuclear tests were conducted on the atolls and in the ocean surrounding them in the 1950s - could have lower radioactive levels ...
Feb 11, 2010 |
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Dramatic changes in agriculture needed as world warms and grows, researchers say
The looming threats of global climate change and population growth call for sweeping changes in how the world produces its food and fiber, warns a group of prestigious scientists, including an expert in plant genetics at ...
Feb 11, 2010 |
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Eat your greens: they can prevent the ill-effects of toxins in foods
(PhysOrg.com) -- LLNL researchers have found that a small dose of chlorophyll or chlorophyllin, found in green leafy vegetables, could reverse the effects of aflatoxin poisoning, a potent, naturally occurring ...
Jan 25, 2010 |
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Sunflower genome holds the promise of sustainable agriculture
As agricultural land becomes increasingly valuable, the need to maximize its utilization increases and decisions about what crops to plant and where, become paramount.
Jan 12, 2010 |
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Feeding the future
(PhysOrg.com) -- At the current growth rate the global population is predicted to reach 10 billion by 2050. To feed this many people, food production worldwide will need to double during a period when climate ...
Jan 06, 2010 |
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Experts: Failure to focus on farming will undermine global climate agreement and increase hunger
Alarmed by a substantial oversight in the global climate talks leading up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen next month, more than 60 of the world's most prominent agricultural scientists and leaders ...
Nov 18, 2009 |
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New study predicts future consequences of a global biofuels program
A report examining the impact of a global biofuels program on greenhouse gas emissions during the 21st century has found that carbon loss stemming from the displacement of food crops and pastures for biofuels ...
Oct 22, 2009 |
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Algae may be secret weapon in climate change war
Driven by fluctuations in oil prices, and seduced by the prospect of easing climate change, experts are ramping up efforts to squeeze fuel out of a promising new organism: pond scum.
Oct 22, 2009 |
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If only the weeds would keep their genes to themselves
Family can be a blessing and a curse, and never more so than in the case of crop plants and their wild relatives. These wild and weedy relatives harbor unique and beneficial genes that may no longer be found in their cultivated ...
Oct 06, 2009 |
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Novel research to root out how microbes affect rice plants
Plants that live in the soil don't live alone -- a mere teaspoon of soil teems with an estimated billion microscopic organisms.
Sep 08, 2009 |
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Sustainable fertilizer: Urine and wood ash produce large harvest
Results of the first study evaluating the use of human urine mixed with wood ash as a fertilizer for food crops has found that the combination can be substituted for costly synthetic fertilizers to produce ...
Sep 02, 2009 |
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