News tagged with hybrid vigour
What causes hybrid vigor?
Plant scientists at the John Innes Centre have provided a new solution to an old debate on why species hybrids can be more vigourous than their parents. In a study to be published online next week in the online open access ...
Jul 20, 2010 |
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Invigorating plants
One of the key elements of the Green Revolution – when a series of agricultural initiatives dramatically boosted crop productivity worldwide – was the harnessing of hybrid vigour. This phenomenon ...
Jul 07, 2011 |
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Mixed-race people perceived as 'more attractive'
In the largest study of its kind Dr Michael Lewis of Cardiff University's School of Psychology, collected a random sample of 1205 black, white, and mixed-race faces.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 14, 2010 |
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New canola strain takes the 'evil' out of 'weevil'
(PhysOrg.com) -- A strain of canola that could save farmers millions of dollars per year in crop losses and insecticide costs has been developed in part by a University of Alberta researcher.
Jul 17, 2009 |
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'Plant-eating predator to fight superweed is not magic bullet'
Plans to introduce plant-eating predators to fight a superweed spreading throughout Britain should not be seen as a 'magic bullet', says a world expert on Japanese knotweed at the University of Leicester.
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Oct 14, 2008 |
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