Growing markets bring potential for rubber and oilseed crops
CANYON Changing and growing markets have renewed interest and research on guayule and lesquerella, two native Big Bend plants that might be grown in other parts of Texas, a Texas AgriLife Research scientist said. Dr. Mike Foster, a research scientist with the Texas AgriLife Research and Exten...Fourteen Global Experts Comment on the Safety and Use of Genetically Modified Food Crops
Online Video Captures Support for Contributions to the Environment and Third- World Farmers ST. LOUIS, Nov. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- In a new online video and podcast released today, 14 globally recognized and distinguished scientists, economists and thought leaders discuss ...Organic Crops Contain Higher Levels of Nutrients: Study
Organic crops contain higher levels of important nutrients, which are said to protect the body against heart attack and cancer causing chemicals, scientists found.// Kirsten Brandt and other researchers found organic tomatoes, apples and peaches had greater concentrations of vitamin C, polyph...Producing Vaccines from genetically modified crops
The consortium, called Pharma-Planta, wants to produce vaccines and other treatments for major //diseases, such as HIV/Aids, rabies and TB and they hope to start clinical trials by the year 2009. The project's aim is to focus on areas that will be of greatest benefit to developing nations where the...Fight anemia by fortifying crops with iron!!!!!!!!
In a path breaking idea researchers at the just concluded Indian science congress in New Delhi have called for a collaborative effort with agricultural scientists to combat anemia with iron fortification of crops. Almost 50% of women and 75% children under 3 years of age are anemic in India. While ...Climate Change Threatening to Wipe Out Wild Relatives of Key Crops
Climate change is threatening to completely wipe out wild relatives of plants such as potato and peanut, according to a new study released by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). According to the study, in the next 50 years as many as 61 percent of the 51 ...'Organic' May Not Mean Healthier
...noted differences between conventional and organic crops with regard to vitamin C, magnesium, calcium, potassium, zinc and copper content. Organic crops did have higher levels of phosphorus, and conventionally produced crops had higher levels of nitrogen. No differences i...Arizona researchers to sequence West African rice strain
...ue and prevent starvation in the future," Wing said. "This is a looming problem facing all of humankind." Rounsley added, "By studying a variety of crops in a variety of environments all of agriculture can benefit. It's a matter of casting the net wide to get information about how plants deal with their...Latest Berry Health Benefits Revealed
...edicine Complete studies will be published in the Journal of Agricultural & Food Chemistry Winter 2009. About the National Berry crops Initiative The NBCI is a partnership of industry, academia and government formed to foster the U.S. berry industries. About the Californ...Dow AgroSciences, World Wide Wheat Agree to Collaborate on Wheat
...is one of the world's leading independent plant breeding companies whose research is devoted to the improvement of wheat, barley and oats - major food crops of the world. World Wide Wheat operates research stations in 18 countries, producing superior varieties of cereal grains that are not genetically modi...Senesco Announces H1N1 Influenza Survival Test Results in Mice
...g crop yields, plant size and resistance to environmental stress. The Company believes that its technology can be used to develop superior strains of crops without any modification other than delaying natural plant senescence. Senesco has partnered with leading-edge companies engaged in agricultural biot...First Jatropha Genome Completed by Synthetic Genomics Inc. and Asiatic Centre for Genome Technology
...said J. Craig Venter, Ph.D., founder and CEO of SGI. "SGI and ACGT will be hard at work on the next steps to use our methods to improve these oilseed crops so that we have higher yielding plants for biofuels, microbial fertilizers, and biologically-based disease control methods." "The completion of ...Senesco Chooses VGXI to Produce Factor 5A Plasmid
...ng crop yields, plant size and resistance to environmental stress. The Company believes that its technology can be used to develop superior strains of crops without any modification other than delaying natural plant senescence. Senesco has partnered with leading-edge companies engaged in agricultural biote...Senesco Expands on Recently Announced Preclinical Pancreatic Islet Data
...ng crop yields, plant size and resistance to environmental stress. The Company believes that its technology can be used to develop superior strains of crops without any modification other than delaying natural plant senescence. Senesco has partnered with leading-edge companies engaged in agricultural biote...Senesco's Preclinical Pancreatic Islet Data to be Presented at Upcoming Conferences
...ng crop yields, plant size and resistance to environmental stress. The Company believes that its technology can be used to develop superior strains of crops without any modification other than delaying natural plant senescence. Senesco has partnered with leading-edge companies engaged in agricultural biote...Senesco Technologies Initiates Preclinical Studies for Cancer Target
...ng crop yields, plant size and resistance to environmental stress. The Company believes that its technology can be used to develop superior strains of crops without any modification other than delaying natural plant senescence. Senesco has partnered with leading-edge companies engaged in agricultural biote...New crops needed for new climate
Global food security in a changing climate depends on the nutritional value and yield of staple food crops. Researchers at Monash University in Victoria, Australia have found an increase in toxic compounds, a decrease in protein content and a decreased yield in plants grown under high CO 2 and dr...New crops needed for new climate
Global food security in a changing climate depends on the nutritional value and yield of staple food crops. Researchers at Monash University in Victoria, Australia have found an increase in toxic compounds, a decrease in protein content and a decreased yield in plants grown under high CO 2 and dr...Protecting the food crops of the future
Biologists are investigating how to control when plants flower - to help farmers reap a bumper harvest. The University of Leeds team will also investigate whether the flowering process can be made more robust and able to withstand predicted changes in the climate. Professor of Plant Developme...Hunt for 'climate-ready' crops accelerates as organizations search seed collections worldwide
ROME, ITALY (22 May 2009)The Global Crop Diversity Trust announced today numerous new grant awards to support scientists to explore the millions of seed samples maintained in 1,500 crop genebanks around the world. They will search for biodiversity critically needed to protect food production from ...Synthetic chemical offers solution for crops facing drought
RIVERSIDE, Calif. Crops and other plants are constantly confronted with adverse environmental conditions, lowering yield and costing farmers billions of dollars annually. Plants use specialized signals, called stress hormones, to sense difficult times and adapt to stressful conditions to enhance ...UC Riverside biochemist to study how crops can increase protein production
RIVERSIDE, Calif. The small flowering plant Arabidopsis is widely used in laboratories as a model organism in plant biology. A member of the mustard family, Arabidopsis offers researchers several advantages such as a completely sequenced genome, a compact size, a life-cycle of about only ...Nations that sow food crops for biofuels may reap less than previously thought
MADISON -- Global yields of most biofuels crops, including corn, rapeseed and wheat, have been overestimated by 100 to 150 percent or more, suggesting many countries need to reset their expectations of agricultural biofuels to a more realistic level. That's according to a study led by Matt John...How to build crops that can beat aluminum's toxic effects
Researchers may have found the key to engineering plants capable of thriving in environments laden with toxic aluminum, according to a report published online on October 2nd in Current Biology , a Cell Press publication. Aluminum (Al)a metal that is generally plentiful in the earth's crustcauses ...DuPont and Arzeda Collaborate to Develop Improved Crops to Increase Productivity
Custom Enzyme Design Technology to Bring More Options to Global Agriculture Des Moines, Iowa and Seattle, Wash. (Vocus) July 13, 2009 -- DuPont and Arzeda Corp. today announced a technology collaboration to develop new traits to increase agricultural productivity. ...Jatrophaworld Training 2009: 2nd Generation nonfood Biofuel crops Knowledge Platform
JWTP 2009: 2nd Generation nonfood Biofuel crops Knowledge Platform CJP's "3rd Global Jatropha Hi-Tech Agricultural Training Programme (JWTP) in India from July 21-25, 2009" is all set to provide the most authoritative Knowledge platform for Development of Sustainable Non-Food Jatropha ...Combating infection of crops by nematodes is soon to improve
Nematodes Nematodes are small worms. Some species are plant-parasitic and infect plants including important agricultural crops. The typical symptoms of a nematode-infection are withering, seriously retarded growth, and impaired development of flower and fruit. Severely infected plants often do ...First Seed Sales of Dedicated Energy Crops Begin
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif., Dec. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Ceres, Inc. announced today that it has begun booking switchgrass and high-biomass sorghum seed under its Blade Energy Crops label. The highly anticipated launch marks the first seed sales of non-food, low-carbon crops developed specifically as raw ma...GM crops protect neighbors from pests
A study in northern China indicates that genetically modified cotton, altered to express the insecticide, Bt, not only reduces pest populations among those crops, but also reduces pests among other nearby crops that have not been modified with Bt. These findings could offer promising new ideas for...Ceres Trials Energy Crops at Georgia Biofuel Facility
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif., Sept. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Energy crop company Ceres, Inc. announced today that it will trial improved switchgrass cultivars and high-biomass sorghum hybrids with Range Fuels, Inc. as part of a cooperative field trialing program at the site of Range Fuels' commercial-scale ...StollerUSA Launches Bio-Forge.com to Offer Solutions for Crops Under Stress
StollerUSA hopes to increase awareness of the benefits of its Bio-Forge® product line through the use of its new interactive micro site Bio-Forge.com. The Web site also includes an overview of Stoller's proprietary technology, plant growth cycles and hormone balance--the critical relationship...Biotech Crops Experience Remarkable Dozen Years of Double-Digit Growth
Socio-economic benefits becoming evident among resource-poor farmers MANILA, Philippines, Feb. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- After a dozen years of commercialization, biotech crops are still gaining ground with another year of double-digit growth and new countries joining the list of supporters, accord...South African Farmers Increase Plantings of Genetically Modified Crops
Farmer Richard Sithole Discusses Impact of Bt Maize on His Farm and Family St. Louis, MO (PRWEB) July 29, 2008 -- In a new online video released today, South African farmer http://www.monsanto.com/biotech-gmo/asp/farmers.asp?cname=South%20Africa&id=RichardSithole ...