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Researchers find gene that may be at root of potato blight

...contains this gene still causes massive amounts of agricultural damage throughout the modern world?on the order of billions of dollars each year. The scientists describe the gene, called Avr3a, in a study that appears online in the early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Researcher...

Experiment station researchers to explore genome of disease-fighting fungus

...udies in Mexico. "There's both pharmaceutical and agricultural implications," said Kenerley, who is the lead researcher on the project. "We're going to get a view of all of the genes that might be responsible for producing antibiotics and potentially discover novel antibiotics used in therapy for humans or anima...

Fungus-farming termites descend from an African rain forest Eve

...hus allowed both partners to conquer the savannah: agricultural termites and their mutualistic fungi are both more... areas. This occurred either by the adoption of an agricultural lifestyle by local hunter-gatherers, or, and probably more often, through replacement of local hunte...

It's electric: Cows show promise as powerplants

...tudy co-author and an associate professor of food, agricultural and biological engineering at Ohio State Universit...tudy's lead author and a graduate student in food, agricultural and biological engineering at Ohio State. The research showed how electricity can be created as the...

Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: Many of 2 billion dryland dwellers at risk as land degrades

...s well, inappropriate economic policies, including agricultural subsidies totalling US$ 300 billion in 2002, can c...ays Dr. Adeel. Effective policies and sustainable agricultural practices can reverse the decline of drylands. Chief among these are measures that protect soils fro...

Bacteria are key to 'green' plastics, drugs

...y. Green technologies use renewable resources like agricultural crops rather than non-renewable fossil fuels, and they produce less waste. "Succinate is a high-priority chemical that the U.S. Department of Energy has targeted for biosynthesis," said process co-developer George Bennett, professor and chair of the...

Woods Hole Research Center plans controlled burn in Amazon rainforest

...times, to simulate the repeated impacts of escaped agricultural fires that burn through the understory of frontier forests every dry season. These areas are already slated for destruction to expand soy fields. The planned burn provides information that cannot be obtained by studying an accidental or escaped fire...

Plant pathologists evaluate eco-friendly alternatives to methyl bromide

...nd be an ozone depletor are now being evaluated in agricultural production areas of Florida, say plant pathologist...hemical methyl bromide replacements in the state's agricultural areas. Soil solarization, a technique that captures radiant heat energy from the sun, is one non-ch...

Industrial contaminants spread by seabirds in High Arctic, new Canadian study shows

... the Canadian High Arctic, far from industrial and agricultural sources of pollutants. However, chemicals are emitted into the air and oceans from the populated parts of the globe, and are transported by air and ocean currents toward cold areas like the Arctic. "Some chemicals will build up in the food webs that...

Organic farms produce same yields as conventional farms

...ologist David Douds Jr. and University of Maryland agricultural economist James Hanson. The research compared soil...d nitrate leaching across organic and conventional agricultural systems. "First and foremost, we found that corn and soybean yields were the same across the three ...

Digging in the dirt for life's biochemical foundations

.... The success of the Green Revolution to increase agricultural yields around the world has relied on the use of s..., as are concerns about nitrogen runoff from large agricultural operations. Nitrogen also is a component of acid rain, which remains common in rapidly industrializi...

NHGRI Selects 13 More Organisms for Genome Sequencing

...sed as a biological control agent because it kills agricultural insect pests. Understanding its genome will increase insights into biological control, as well as into basic mechanisms of parasitism that may be applicable to parasites of humans. The zebra finch was chosen because it is a major model system for un...

Possible treatment found for 'chemobrain'

...sed as a biological control agent because it kills agricultural insect pests. Understanding its genome will increase insights into biological control, as well as into basic mechanisms of parasitism that may be applicable to parasites of humans. The zebra finch was chosen because it is a major model system for un...

UCR biochemist goes to Washington with high-protein corn

... Agricultural Research, a broad-based coalition of agricultural producers, science societies and universities, is sponsoring the seminar. In the United States, the vast majority of corn - nearly 65 percent - is used to feed animals for meat production. Much of the remainder is exported to other countries for fee...

Public release of pig genomic sequences

...search institution in the promotion of genomics in agricultural research. In the past 5 years, in addition to its contribution to the international Human Genome and HapMap Projects, BGI has sequenced the genomes of rice, chicken, silkworm, and many microorganisms of importance for agriculture, environment, and in...

‘Blue Brain?project explores thought at molecular level

...search institution in the promotion of genomics in agricultural research. In the past 5 years, in addition to its contribution to the international Human Genome and HapMap Projects, BGI has sequenced the genomes of rice, chicken, silkworm, and many microorganisms of importance for agriculture, environment, and in...

Study uncovers dirty little secret: Soil emissions are much-bigger-than-expected component of air pollution

...gator Program in Earth Science. Jaeglé noted that agricultural activity is likely to increase in the future, bringing more fertilizer use. As a result, there could also be even greater soil emissions of nitrogen oxides. "We don't know how emissions will change, but we now have a way to monitor them from space,"...

Locusts' built-in 'surface analysis' ability directs them to fly overland

...g" the locusts and deterring them from flying over agricultural lands and causing the great damage that ensues. One way of doing so might be through more extensive use of plastic sheeting as shields to create the reflection of the polarized light that the locusts avoid. ...

Whisky fans can drink to crop research

...e research will help to contribute to the Scottish agricultural economy as 50 per cent of the arable land in Scotland is currently used to grow barley. Most of this crop is used to make beer and whisky with the supply chain from farmer to product employing over 13,000 people, mainly in rural communities. Whisky i...

Acid water in East Java threatens biodiversity and local welfare

...ver water remains very low. This water is used for agricultural and household purposes, which sometimes leads to the rice harvests failing. The very high aluminium content of the water - associated with the acidity - also plays an important role in this. Other elements such as fluorine, in the form of fluoride, f...

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