How can biodiversity be preserved while securing the economic livelihood of smallholder farmers growing vanilla in Madagascar? There is a way, according to a study by the Universities of Göttingen, Marburg and Hohenheim. ...
Ecology
Aug 11, 2022
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Water deficit is currently one of the most significant limiting factors for global agricultural productivity, a factor further exacerbated by global climate change, according to a 2019 water report from the Food and Agriculture ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 8, 2022
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Don Wyse's field of winter barley used to be mostly empty in the spring.
Ecology
Aug 4, 2022
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Phytoplasmas are bacteria that can invade the vascular tissues of plants, causing many different crop diseases. While most studies of phytoplasmas begin by examining plants showing disease symptoms, a new analysis focuses ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 2, 2022
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Over the course of many thousands of years, humans turned rye into a cultivated plant. In doing so, they have considerably limited its genetic flexibility. Today, wild rye not only has a more diverse genetic make-up, it is ...
Evolution
Jul 20, 2022
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Plants face constant attack by diseases, insect swarms, and fungi, resulting in crop losses that threaten global food security. Discovering new ways to help the plant defend itself against attack is an enormous challenge ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 20, 2022
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Genomes contain regions between protein-coding genes that produce lengthy RNA molecules that never give rise to a protein. These long intergenic non-coding RNAs (lincRNAs) are thought to have important functions, such as ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 19, 2022
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Morocco has a large fertilizer industry with huge production capacity and international reach. It is one of the world's top four fertilizer exporters following Russia, China and Canada.
Economics & Business
Jul 11, 2022
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Future food shortages are expected to become exacerbated in many parts of the world. With this in view, sustainable biological techniques are being explored that could increase the yield of cereals and other food crops and ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 6, 2022
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Researchers from the Disruptive & Sustainable Technologies for Agricultural Precision (DiSTAP) Interdisciplinary Research Group (IRG) at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT's research enterprise ...
Biotechnology
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