grain in Biological News

Ethanol production could jeopardize soil productivity

... debate of food versus fuel, because less of the grain would be diverted to ethanol production, leaving ... than 40% of the aboveground residues other than grain are removed. From a crop management perspective, ... different types of crops for not only their grain and end-use quality but also for their crop ...

Will large amounts of soil carbon be released if grasslands are converted to energy crops?

... be increasingly converted to growing bioenergy grain crops. Questions abound regarding the fate of ... by perennial grasses if the land is converted to grain crop production and the potential effectiveness ... Reserve Program grasslands are converted to grain crop production, data from this study strongly ...

February 2009 Geology and GSA Today media highlights

... numerical results show that the dominance of grain boundary sliding during dynamic grain size reduction can trigger intense strain ... mantle. Therefore, in response to the grain boundary slidinginduced weakening in mantle shear ...

Sequencing of sorghum genome completed

... it tolerates drought. One variety, known as grain sorghum, is a food staple in places such as ... it to be grown in regions where corn or other grain crops cannot compete. Another variety ... since the entire plant may be used, not just the grain the kernels of corn. "We now will have ...

American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- Nov. 19, 2008

... Toward healthier bread and other whole grain foods Journal of Agricultural and Food ... nutrient levels in the world's different grain varieties, which could lead to the development of healthier varieties of grain and grain-based foods, they say. Their findings ...

Biologists discover gene behind 'plant sex mystery'

... fertilization' process was how each single pollen grain could produce 'twin' sperm cells. One to join ... acts as a switch within the young pollen grain to trigger precursor cells to divide into twin ... of a twin sperm cell cargo in each pollen grain and thus ensures successful reproduction in ...

A little nitrogen can go a long way

... pesticides. With recent substantial increases in grain and fertilizer prices, even small changes in ... yield or nitrogen-use efficiency (the amount of grain produced per kilogram of nitrogen applied), and ... yield zones, though at Site 1 in 2003 average grain yields were not different among yield zones. ...

AgriLife Research breeder develops drought-tolerant corn

... to save water and produce crops with yield and grain quality under stressful environments." The ... hybrids are being evaluated this year for either grain yield or silage yield and quality, he said. Xu ... resistance, insect resistance and value-added grain characteristics." Xu said some of the ...

Sweets make young horses harder to train in Montana State study

... MSU. But the extra energy provided by sweet grain during the early stages of training made the ... still analyzing some of the data to see how the grain affected the horses' adrenaline during training. ... The other horses ate five pounds of sweet grain a day in addition to the hay. Both groups ate as ...

Turning waste material into ethanol

... Say the word "biofuels" and most people think of grain ethanol and biodiesel. But there's another, ... a wide range of biomass, including distiller's grain left over from ethanol production, corn stover ... ranging from replacing natural gas in grain ethanol plants to providing hydrogen for fuel ...

New high fiber barley licensed to grow

... scale commercial crops of BARLEYmax unique grain developed by CSIRO using conventional plant ... Australia. "Austgrains specialises in supplying grain and functional food ingredients to the food ... processing properties and foods made with the new grain have a naturally sweet, slightly nutty taste," Mr ...

Organic corn: Increasing rotation complexity increases yields

... per year in the United States, almost all organic grain and forage to support these industries in the ... Weed competition also contributed to lower corn grain yields in organic systems. For soybean, weed ... length and complexity had a strong impact on corn grain yield. A crop rotation that included corn, ...

American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- May 14, 2008

... Europe, according to a new global study of the grain that feeds over half of humanity. The study ... higher concentrations in rice than other staple grain crops. The researchers discovered that arsenic ... Arsenic in Rice: II. Arsenic Speciation in USA grain and Implications for Human Health DOWNLOAD ...

Fueling ethanol production while protecting water quality

... a viable cellulosic ethanol industry, expanded grain ethanol production will lead to further growth of ... concentrate manure production, often far from grain production, making effective manure use as a ... ethanol industry could reduce dependence on grain and provide water quality and other environmental ...

Are organic crops as productive as conventional?

... trials compared six cropping systems (three cash grain and three forage based crops) ranging from ... to less diverse, conventional systems. The cash grain systems were 1) conventional continuous corn, 2) ... milk as the conventional systems; and organic grain crops: corn, soybean, and winter wheat produced ...

K-State contributions to red flour beetle genome sequencing featured in March 27 issue of Nature

... others throughout the world, this pest of stored grain and grain products is the best organism for studying ... at the U.S. Department of Agriculture grain Marketing and Production Research Center in ...

New folic acid seal helps women choose enriched grain foods to help prevent birth defects

... of childbearing age, the March of Dimes and the grain Foods Foundation have created a new Folic ... retail to help women quickly and easily identify grain products, such as white bread, that are enriched ... it actually has twice as much folic acid as whole grain or whole wheat bread. These survey results ...

K-State researchers findings on E. coli

... University has found that cattle fed distiller's grain have an increased prevalence of E. coli 0157 in ... contaminated with cattle manure. "Distiller's grain is a good animal feed. That's why ethanol plants ... was about twice as high in cattle fed distiller's grain compared with those cattle that were on a diet ...

Handbook of small grain insects available now

... announces the publication of Handbook of Small grain Insects, the latest in ESAs Insect Pest Handbooks ... arthropod pests and beneficial species of small grain crops. 58 entomologists with expertise on ... keys that will help readers identify small grain pests and beneficial arthropods. It begins with ...

Right breakfast bread keeps blood sugar in check all day

... indigestible carbohydrates that occur in certain grain products. The findings are presented in a ... be moderated in a similar way by eating the right grain products the night before. Barley evinced ... grains and whole grains in bread. But when the grain was ground into porridge, the effect was ...

The 5 Ws of corn production

... type and landscape features across the field. As grain markets shift to a greater emphasis on ethanol, more attention is being directed to optimizing grain quality, where traditionally the emphasis was on ... abundance over a period of time in crop yield and grain quality has not influenced use efficiency or ...

Study highlights massive imbalances in global fertilizer use

... where fertilizer manufacturing is government subsidized, the average grain yield per acre grew 98 percent between 1977 and 2005, while nitrogen ... that nitrogen fertilizer use could be cut in half without loss of yield or grain quality, in the process reducing nitrogen losses by more than 50 percent. ...

Omega-3 fatty acids appear to impact AMD progression

... trigger a sharp rise and fall of blood sugar. Low-GI foods, such as whole grain versions of pasta and bread, have a milder effect on blood sugar response. ... Taylor and Chiu suggests that daily substitution of five slices of whole grain bread for white bread out of a total intake of 250 g of carbohydrate might ...

Folic acid to prevent congenital heart defects

... French . Montreal, May 14th 2009 - The Canadian policy of fortifying grain products with folic acid has already proved to be effective in preventing ... have seen an increase in these defects." Since December 1998, all grain products sold in Canada have been fortified with folic acid with 0.15 mg ...

Preventing soil erosion in continuous corn

... soil erosion. Yet, the amount of N fertilizer needed to optimize corn grain yield can vary among tillage systems due to differences in soil N cycling. ... systems. Averaged across N fertilizer rates in these environments, corn grain yield was similar between no-till and chisel plow tillage systems with ...

World fertilizer prices drop dramatically after soaring to all-time highs

... and Europe. Increased livestock production created still more demand for grain and thus for fertilizers. grain reserves became historically low and prices rose sharply. Further ...

Superglue from the sea

... including bone repair, he adds. Building a Sandcastle Colony 'One grain of Sand at a Time' Stewart conducted the study with Hui Shao, a ... next to each other, like stacks of pipes, to form a large colony. "One grain of sand at a time it builds big, reef-like colonies the size of ...

More research needed to make good on biofuel promise, experts say

... as well as effects on soils and the landscape." Rising demand for corn grain ethanol has gone hand-in-hand with increased water use and, oftentimes, ... nutrient runoff, Doering said. There also is mixed evidence that corn grain ethanol reduces greenhouse gas emissions. The intensive corn cultivation ...

Scientists identify gene that may contribute to improved rice yield

... specialized in controlling invertase activity in a particular part of the grain -- the vascular tissue, which transports nutrients, including sugars ... process of improving rice yield. "The goal is to understand what controls grain weight and other factors, and to look for ways to increase yield," said ....

Key discovered to cold tolerance in corn

... Demand for corn -- the world's number one feed grain and a staple food for many -- is outstripping supply, resulting in large ... wheat, a C3 plant, may be grown into northern Sweden and Alberta, the C4 grain corn cannot. Even within the Corn Belt and despite record yields, corn ...

Worldwide mission to solve iron deficiency

... countries, transport only a small fraction of iron to the developing grain 5% for rice and 20% for wheat. Furthermore, the small amount of iron that ... in the outer layers, which are removed during the milling process so that grain can be stored for long periods. "In the western world we can get around ...

Dosage of fertilizer helps to enhance quality of wheat

... the decades, more concretely during the second half of the XX century when grain production per unit area doubled. This increase was boosted by genetic ... of the grain. In her PhD, entitled Physiology of wheat crop and grain quality under different regimes of nitrogenated fertilizers, UPV/EHU ...

Highlights from the May 2008 Journal of the American Dietetic Association

... certain number of servings from each food group. Increased Whole grain and Fiber Levels for Popcorn Eaters People who eat popcorn have an ... of popcorn within the past 24 hours before taking the survey. Total grain consumption was found to be significantly higher (20.8 percent) with ...

Scientists unravel the genetic coding of the pea

... from the INRA Plant Genomics Research Unit at Evry, and the INRA grain Legumes Research Unit at Bretenires, both in France, both in France ... genetic reference collection of Pisum sativum mutants within the European grain Legumes Integrated Project. Abdelhafid Bendahmane and colleagues used ...

Iowa Staters talk biofuels, healthy oils and 'pharma crops' at AAAS meeting

... supplies. In those instances, Wisner said there were major disruptions in grain export markets, price impacts and very high public and private costs to purge the grain from the food system. Linda Pollak, a research geneticist for the U.S. ...

Researchers combat slowing yields with targeted fertilizer applications

... of the Indian rice production, is currently witnessing a slower rice grain yield growth rate as compared to the yield growth rate during the green ... management (SSNM) the scientists were able to increase average rice grain yields by 17 percent compared with current farmers fertilizer practice. ...

Fungus genome yielding answers to protect grains, people and animals

... Fusarium graminearum, which exists worldwide, cuts crop yield, damages grain quality and produces mycotoxins. The fungus caused a widespread head ... cancer. People in developing countries are at the greatest risk of eating grain contaminated with Fusarium mycotoxins. Although not all types of Fusarium ...

HARDY rice: less water, more food

... use of a gene known as HARDY that improves key features of this important grain crop. The research, which was recently published in the Proceedings of the ... water-use efficiency and drought resistance in rice and perhaps other grain or seed crops. This should contribute in a sustainable way to maintaining ...

HARDY rice: less water, more food

... use of a gene known as HARDY that improves key features of this important grain crop. The research, which was recently published in the Proceedings of the ... water-use efficiency and drought resistance in rice and perhaps other grain or seed crops. This should contribute in a sustainable way to maintaining ...

Sustainable agriculture at the ESA Annual Meeting

... perennial crops are the key to creating more sustainable agricultural systems. "Across agricultural history, we've fundamentally relied on annual grain crops," Glover says. "But at the same time we rely on them, they're degrading the ecosystems they're in, which reduces their productivity." To ...