Decoded genome may help tortoise win race to survive
Slow and steady wins the race.
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Survey: Another good year for Chesapeake Bay's underwater grasses
An annual survey led by researchers at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science shows the abundance of underwater grasses in Chesapeake Bay increased 8% between 2015 and 2016, continuing an upward trend initiated in 2012.
Corn with a cover of grass: Finding best combination for biofuel corn, soil protection
The phrase "a double-edged sword" describes something that is beneficial in some ways but problematic in others. One example is removing maize stover (the husks, stems and leaves of corn plants) from fields. Maize stover ...
Scientists discover gene that influences grain yield
Researchers at the Enterprise Rent-A-Car Institute for Renewable Fuels at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center have discovered a gene that influences grain yield in grasses related to food crops. Four mutations were ...
Image: Prescribed fires consume Kansas landscape
Most if not all the fires in this image taken by Suomi NPP satellite's VIIRS (Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite) instrument on April 11, 2017 are controlled fires set by farmers to manage land. Farmers in Kansas ...
Prescribed fires consume Kansas landscape
Most if not all the fires in this image taken by Suomi NPP satellite's VIIRS (Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite) instrument on April 11, 2017 are controlled fires set by farmers to manage land.
Researchers find mushrooms may hold clues to effect of carbon dioxide on lawns
Since the Industrial Revolution, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has rapidly increased. Researchers at the University of New Hampshire set out to determine how rising carbon dioxide concentrations and different ...
Researchers convert grass into biofuel
Researchers at Ghent University (Belgium, Europe) have developed a process that turns grass into biofuel.
Gardening worms and climate change undermine natural coastal protection
Dikes could be lower if they are protected against the waves by grassy marshes. But the protective salt marsh grass is struggling to stay alive, and this is not only due to increasingly stronger waves in the face of climate ...
Study shows wildfire does not damage barbed wire
Don't assume that a grass fire has damaged the barbed wire on a fence.
