Different combinations of human hunting and climate change caused Australia's famed 'giant' species to go extinct, and now it turns out that for some species, changing food availability made things worse.
Ecology
Dec 14, 2021
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An Honorary Professor from the University of Stirling has made a breakthrough in resolving a key conflict in the world's quest for net zero—how to reconcile tree planting and food production.
Environment
Nov 29, 2021
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For plant breeding, it is important to create as many combinations as possible of genetic variants within a short time to select the most suitable candidates between plants with many different characteristics. The working ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 29, 2021
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Can you produce new, plant-based foods from Swedish-grown pulses? This has been studied by Ferawati Ferawati in her dissertation in chemistry from Linnaeus University, in which she has studied the properties and nutrient ...
Agriculture
Nov 18, 2021
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The wild strawberry is even more highly prized than its store-bought cousin because of its intense aroma and uniquely sweet taste. However, they're hard to find in the wild, so some companies make synthetic versions of this ...
Other
Nov 17, 2021
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Fat-free chocolate milk processed for the first time with high-pressure jet technology exhibits enhanced viscosity, stabilizing cocoa particles in the fluid and eliminating the need for adding a controversial emulsifier.
Other
Nov 15, 2021
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Understanding the interplay between bacteria and sulfur is leading to exciting biotechnologies that could enable crops to be irrigated with salty water.
Molecular & Computational biology
Nov 15, 2021
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Plants are not entirely at the mercy of their herbivore enemies. Often, chemical defenses ensure that the plants are inedible, or even toxic, and as a result insects and other hungry animals steer clear of them. A new study ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 25, 2021
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Virulent diseases which devastate food crops like coffee, almond, citrus and grapevines with serious global economic and environmental consequences, could be controlled by large-scale aerial scanning, says new collaborative ...
Biotechnology
Oct 25, 2021
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The tropical root vegetable taro, known as the 'food of the gods' in the Pacific, is under threat from rising sea levels but wild Australian plants being cultivated by The University of Queensland may help boost food security ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Oct 21, 2021
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