A team of U of T Scarborough researchers have discovered that the waxy protective barrier around plants might play a role in sending chemical signals to other plants and insects.
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 30, 2023
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Industrialized farming relies heavily on outside inputs, like synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, machinery, seeds, and animal feed. A study published in Nature Food predicts how much yield would be lost from "input shocks" ...
Agriculture
Nov 17, 2023
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A powerful new way to fill major gaps in public bee data—including from Africa, Asia and other under-reported zones—has been addressed with a centralized tool for consolidating bee pollinator occurrences around the globe.
Ecology
Nov 2, 2023
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A genetic breakthrough has opened new opportunities for iron-fortified vegetables and cereal crops to help address the global health issue of anemia.
Molecular & Computational biology
Oct 31, 2023
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Increasing organic carbon in soils has been promoted as a way to help combat climate change while also improving soil fertility and crop yields, but a new paper shows that promised yield increases at a global scale would ...
Ecology
Oct 30, 2023
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Humanity must cut carbon emissions and use farmland more efficiently to protect our planet's remaining wilderness, new research shows.
Ecology
Oct 19, 2023
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Honeybees have been considered generalists when selecting flowering plants; in other words, they can use a wide range of different plants. However, recent research has shown that honeybees are quite selective.
Plants & Animals
Oct 4, 2023
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For a long time, little attention was paid to soil temperatures. In contrast to air temperatures near the surface, hardly any reliable data was available because of the considerably more complex measurement. A research team ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 25, 2023
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Air pollution dramatically reduces pollination because it degrades the scent of flowers, affecting bees' ability to find them, a study has found.
Plants & Animals
Sep 4, 2023
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It's a mold that causes billions in crop losses every year, infecting berries, tomatoes and most other fruits and vegetables. Now, researchers have found a way to defeat the mold without showering toxic chemicals on the crops.
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 3, 2023
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