Commonly available eco-friendly plants and materials can be used to trap rice-crop-invading snails in place of chemicals, according to new research in the Pertanika Journal of Tropical Agricultural Science.
Plants & Animals
May 23, 2016
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A moth caterpillar called the Mexican rice borer (Eoreuma loftini) has taken a heavy toll on sugar cane and rice crops in Texas, and has moved into Louisiana, Florida, and other Gulf Coast states. Now a new article in the ...
Ecology
Apr 13, 2016
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A West Australian-based researcher has helped boost global food security, with trials that have shown a 45 per cent increase in lentil crop production in some of the poorest communities in Asia.
Biotechnology
Mar 14, 2016
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A researcher from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid has been involved in a study to establish the quantity of water used in rice crops according to their seeding system.
Environment
Nov 4, 2015
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New ways of monitoring rice crops could provide growers with better information – including early warnings of possible threats – and enable more accurate yield predictions. These are some of the key objectives of the ...
Other
Mar 19, 2015
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Over the last years, various GM crops with health benefits have been developed in which genes, mostly originating from other organisms, have been added. Notable examples include rice enriched with pro-vitamin A (also known ...
Biotechnology
Jan 13, 2015
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Few agronomists are familiar with Rhamphicarpa fistulosa, a fragile weed with white flowers, from the broomrape family. Yet this root parasite is increasingly affecting rice cultivation in Africa. This has become clear from ...
Ecology
Sep 25, 2014
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In 1992, a pair of scientists had a brainwave: how about inserting genes into rice that would boost its vitamin A content?
Biotechnology
Jul 8, 2014
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A fungus that kills an estimated 30 percent of the world's rice crop may finally have met its match, thanks to a research discovery made by scientists at the University of Delaware and the University of California at Davis.
Biotechnology
May 28, 2014
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(Phys.org) —With as much as 40 percent of the world's potentially arable land unusable due to aluminum toxicity, a solution may be near: Cornell agricultural scientists report that a gene – and the protein it expresses ...
Biotechnology
Apr 30, 2014
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