Agricultural soils provide the basis for more than 90 percent of the global food production, but throughout the world there are serious threats to soil quality. Soil degradation reduces its fertility and threatens food supply ...
Environment
Dec 8, 2015
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Clever farming techniques would provide China with more than enough grain to feed its escalating population in the coming decades while easing stress on its environment, scientists reported on Wednesday.
Environment
Sep 3, 2014
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(Phys.org) —Increased nitrogen-use efficiency of plants and an associated reduced need for nitrogen-based fertilisers may be a step closer following University of Adelaide research on legumes.
Environment
Apr 1, 2014
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It has long been believed that the appearance of complex multicellular life towards the end of the Precambrian (the geologic interval lasting up until 541 million years ago) was facilitated by an increase in oxygen, as revealed ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 27, 2014
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Scientists have discovered a bacterium that could reduce the use of fertiliser in sugarcane production and improve yield.
Biotechnology
Dec 18, 2013
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Agro-biogas plants produce renewable energy, extracting gas produced in the anaerobic fermentation of animal manures mixed with organic wastes from the food sector. One by-product of this fermentation process is a thick liquid ...
Energy & Green Tech
Sep 23, 2013
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The nation's biggest supplier of fertiliser spreaders is using research by CSIRO to show farmers that even fertiliser distribution can help them improve crop yields.
Environment
Aug 28, 2013
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A major new technology has been developed by The University of Nottingham, which enables all of the world's crops to take nitrogen from the air rather than expensive and environmentally damaging fertilisers.
Environment
Jul 25, 2013
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In two papers to be published in Current Biology, researchers from JIC and The Sainsbury Laboratory on the Norwich Research Park, and Rothamsted Research and the University of York identify genes that help plants interact ...
Biotechnology
Nov 2, 2012
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Rising nitrogen fertiliser application to sugarcane crops globally and the potential for this fertiliser to be leached from soil and lost to the atmosphere have been highlighted in a new study led by The ...
Environment
May 9, 2011
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