Spice leaves sheep smelling sweeter
(PhysOrg.com) -- Forget low-energy lightbulbs and solar-powered homes - curry spices could hold the key to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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Jul 06, 2010 |
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US Supreme Court overturns ban on GM crop
In a landmark first ruling on genetically modified crops, the US Supreme Court overturned Monday a four-year ban on alfalfa seeds engineered by biotech giant Monsanto to resist weed killer.
Jun 21, 2010 |
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Cycad plant depends on insect for multiple services
When a plant endemic to several islands in the Western Pacific Ocean taps the services of a helpful insect, a double-dose of benefits comes its way.
Jun 09, 2010 |
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Spicing the Meat Also Cuts the Cancer Risk
(PhysOrg.com) -- Spices will do more than just enhance the taste of ground beef. They'll also cut down on the risk of compounds that can cause cancer.
May 19, 2010 |
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Probing Question: What is seed banking?
Nearly 1,000 kilometers north of Norway stands an impressive vault. Dug deep below the permafrost into solid rock, so far north that four months out of the year the sun doesn’t shine, the vault contains some ...
Apr 30, 2010 |
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ARS researching camelina as a new biofuel crop
Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists have long-term studies under way to examine growing camelina as a bioenergy crop for producing jet fuel for the military and the aviation industry. This research supports the ...
Apr 14, 2010 |
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New CSIRO soybean a hit in Japan
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new soybean variety from CSIRO is gaining popularity in Japan due to its enhanced suitability as an ingredient in traditional Japanese dishes.
Apr 12, 2010 |
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Chemicals in smoke help plants grow sturdier, study shows
When fires rage through forests, they often char acres upon acres of plant life and scar a landscape for years to come. Some plants have learned to use this destructive force to their advantage -- moving into competitors' ...
Mar 30, 2010 |
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Dormant microbes promote diversity, serve environment: study
(PhysOrg.com) -- The ability of microbes, tiny organisms that do big jobs in our environment, to go dormant not only can save them from death and possible extinction but may also play a key role in promoting ...
Mar 19, 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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'World's Most Useful Tree' Provides Low-Cost Water Purification Method for Developing World
A low-cost water purification technique published in Current Protocols in Microbiology could help drastically reduce the incidence of waterborne disease in the developing world. The procedure, which uses seeds from the Mo ...
Mar 03, 2010 |
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Scientists Develop New Method for Tracking Seed Dispersal and Establishment
(PhysOrg.com) -- A Penn State biologist and his collaborators have developed a new method for tracking seed movement and germination. According to Tomás Carlo, assistant professor of biology at Penn ...
Feb 26, 2010 |
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Shooting Meteorites in a Barrel
High-impact lab experiments simulate whether the building blocks of life could have survived the rough arrival on Earth via meteorite impact.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 26, 2010 |
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Fungal fumes clear out crop pests
A cocktail of compounds emitted by the beneficial fungus Muscodor albus may offer a biologically based way to fumigate certain crops and rid them of destructive pests. That's the indication from Agricultural Research Servic ...
Feb 19, 2010 |
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Seeds from the Moringa tree can be used for water purification
Pure water is a key requirement for good health and alternative cheap, safe methods are required in many countries. In a paper that has just been published in the leading American Chemical Society journal on interfaces, Langmuir, resear ...
Feb 18, 2010 |
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