Enhancing food production with bee–friendly pesticides
The development of eco-friendly pesticides urgently required to protect crops will be accelerated with funding from the Australian Research Council.
The development of eco-friendly pesticides urgently required to protect crops will be accelerated with funding from the Australian Research Council.
Biotechnology
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Base editors, which enable production of highly efficient targeted point mutations in genomic DNA without causing double-stranded DNA breaks, hold great promise for gene therapy in human disease and trait improvement in crop ...
Biotechnology
Jul 27, 2020
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UC Riverside scientists have found the first substance capable of controlling Citrus Greening Disease, which has devastated citrus farms in Florida and also threatens California.
Ecology
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Plants & Animals
Jun 23, 2020
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Biotechnology
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Some new crop varieties are bred to be more nutritious. Others are more resilient, bred to tolerate harsher environmental conditions.
Biotechnology
Apr 13, 2020
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A new fennel fungal disease caused by a new genus and species—Ochraceocephala foeniculi, was observed for the first time in 2017 on 5% of the "Apollo" fennel cultivar grown in the sampled localities in Catania province, ...
Ecology
Mar 31, 2020
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Pathogenic fungi pose a huge and growing threat to global food security.
Biotechnology
Mar 30, 2020
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Scientists from the Centre for Crop and Disease Management (CCDM) and Curtin University in Western Australia have used an advanced imaging technique at the Australian Synchrotron for an in-depth look at how a fungus found ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 23, 2020
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Scientists have tested a new way to protect crops from a widespread and devastating bacterial disease, without using environmentally damaging chemical sprays.
Biotechnology
Dec 5, 2019
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