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Growing crops to cope with climate change

...a gene that could help to develop new varieties of crop that will be able to cope with the changing world climate. Researchers funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) at the John Innes Centre in Norwich have identified the gene in barley that controls how the plant res...

Scientists a step closer to protecting world's most important crop

...a step closer to protecting world's most important crop Rice is the globe's most important crop but its production is constantly threatened by disease.Now scientists at the University of Exeter ha...

New DNA 'fingerprinting' technique separates hemp from marijuana

...m marijuana plants with genetic markers. Hemp, a crop grown for durable fiber and nutritious seed, and m... foreign products while creating a new alternative crop for American farmers. ...

Environmental metagenomics diagnosing extreme environments, tapping opportunities for clean energy

...of lignocellulosic feedstocks, such as wood chips, crop residue, and various grasses, into cleaner sources of energy." One of the systems that DOE JGI characterizing is the microbial community inhabiting the termite hindgut, among nature's most efficient bioreactors--capable of generating two liters of h...

GPSDB, the free Gene and Protein Synonyms DataBase

...y teaches us how to restore degraded soils, triple crop yields and support a wide array of crops in region...ld not only dramatically improve soil and increase crop production, but also could provide a novel approach to establishing a significant, long-term sink fo...

Amazonian terra preta can transform poor soil into fertile

...y teaches us how to restore degraded soils, triple crop yields and support a wide array of crops in region...ld not only dramatically improve soil and increase crop production, but also could provide a novel approach to establishing a significant, long-term sink fo...

Plants give pests sock in the gut

...ng a cheap and highly effective way of controlling crop pests. Other authors of the paper include Tibor Pechan, Srinidi Mohan, Renuka Shivaji, Lorena Lopez, Alberto Camas, Erin Bassford, Seval Ozkan, Peter Ma, all at Mississippi State University; and W. Paul Williams, U.S.D.A. ...

New maps reveal true extent of human footprint on Earth

...including a look at related factors such as global crop yields and fertilizer use. Distilling that informa...oybean, a legume that has never been a traditional crop of Latin America. Scientists say the surge in soybean production there has a lot to do with the boom...

Open Source Biotechnology alliance for international agriculture

...sisted selection, or even true breeding hybrids of crop species that would allow farmers in developing countries to use hybrid seed year after year. Adds Jefferson, "Scientists and farmers need better options for problem solving, that meet their priorities, work within their constraints, build on their in...

Biologists discover new pathway into plant cells

...und around the world, and in some places can cause crop losses ranging up to 50 percent. These fungi produce multiple toxins that attack wheat plants, reducing yields and ruining wheat used as seed. In the United States, it's a particular problem in the Great Plains and Midwest. Ciuffetti has spent much o...

Plants, too, have ways to manage freeloaders

...needs further testing, she said. Simms noted that crop plants such as soybeans have been shown to produce... microbe that determines this? Have we bred out of crop plants the ability to choose their root bacteria?" ...

Anyway you slice it, tomatoes cut through drought with new gene

... details "a strategy to engineer drought-resistant crop plants." For example, regular or control tomatoes used in the experiment suffered irreversible damage after five days without water, as opposed to the transgenic tomatoes, which began to show signs of damage after 13 days but rebounded completel...

The bioweapon is in the post

...y biologists to carefully examine any matches that crop up. The need for expert human checks may be one factor deterring some companies from screening orders. Others like to reassure customers who may be worried about commercial confidentiality that their sequence data will remain secret. But whatever th...

Some good news for the world's poor

... attempt to assess the economic impact of improved crop varieties, not just rice but also other important food staples such as wheat, maize, barley, cassava, and potato. Dr. Hans Gregersen, the head of a panel that reviewed the research, described the study by Dr. Evenson and his huge team of researchers ...

WWF peeks into mysterious life of Borneo's pygmy elephants

...ntations that produce palm oil, the leading export crop for Malaysia. „X Each elephant belongs to a herd of 30-50 elephants but often splits off into smaller groups for days or weeks at a time. The home ranges of Nancy and Taliwas, who were collared in nearby forests, overlap, suggesting that the two elep...

Many needles, many haystacks

...One challenge was to eliminate red herrings, which crop up everywhere when you look for very small patterns," Russell says. "The fact that nine of these motifs were already known was a sign we were on the right trail; we then did follow-up experiments in collaboration with Luis Serrano's group at EMBL to ...

Finding rewrites the evolutionary history of the origin of potatoes

...ato - an international dietary staple - is a major crop in both the United States and in Wisconsin, which is fourth in the nation for potato production. Potato diseases such as late blight can cause significant economic damage to farmers in America and throughout the world. "As a taxonomist, my job is...

Scientists map one of biology's critical light-sensing structures

... be possible to dampen the role of phytochromes in crop plants to avoid having them compete with each other for light when grown close together in a field. ...

Storing carbon to combat global warming may cause other environmental problems, study suggests

...ty as nutrient, pesticide, and erosion runoff from crop production is reduced," they wrote. ...

GM crop that holds on to its seeds offers higher yields

... have found a way of boosting the yield of a major crop by stopping its seedpods from bursting open. Indi...rd (Brassica juncea) is the most important oilseed crop in India after groundnut. It is grown largely to produce cooking oil from the seeds. However, becaus...

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