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Using a gene-editing tool to improve productivity in rice crops

As global food insecurity climbed to a perilous high in 2022, scientists ramped up their efforts to perfect best practices for protecting the yields of major crops that are essential in combating this issue. And, while rice ...

Firms withheld pesticide toxicity data from EU: study

Several major agrochemical companies did not disclose to European Union authorities studies assessing the toxic effects of pesticide ingredients on brain development, research said on Thursday.

AI crop predictor aids Africa's crisis planning

An artificial intelligence (AI) tool is using satellite remote sensing and machine learning to predict agricultural yields of key crops across Africa, to help mitigate the harms of climate change and other crises, its developers ...

Mapping the conflict between farming and biodiversity

It's well known that producing foods such as beef can have an outsized footprint when it comes to carbon emissions. But a new study shows that some of these same staples can have an equally huge effect when it comes to biodiversity ...

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Ecology
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Agriculture
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Ecology
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Agriculture
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Ecology
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Ecology
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Molecular & Computational biology
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Ecology
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Biotechnology
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Molecular & Computational biology
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Ecology
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Plants & Animals
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Evolution
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Ecology
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Biotechnology
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Evolution
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