Tag: Agriculture

Credit: Urooj Fatima, Priyadarshini Bhorali, and Muthappa Senthil-Kumar During visits to fields in Assam, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, India, plant ...

Tougher start could help captive-bred game birds

Credit: Martin Clay Tougher early lives could help captive-bred game birds develop survival skills for adulthood in the wild, new ...

Helsinki declaration on planetary health calls for commitment from the EU

Credit: Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare Scientific evidence shows that human activities impact global warming, biodiversity loss, land degradation, ...

Pollination is better in cities than in the countryside

Plants benefit from more bees, especially bumble beesCredit: Henryk Niestrój /Pixabay Flowering plants are better pollinated in urban than in ...

Fungal decisions can affect climate

Credit: Susan V. Fisk When we think of climate change, we tend to think about greenhouse gases, fossil fuels and ...

Harrington Seed Destructor kills nearly 100 percent of US agronomic weed seeds in lab study

January 28, 2020

Credit: Lauren Quinn, University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - In the battle against herbicide-resistant weeds, farmers are increasingly eager to ...

Getting to the root of plant survival

Findings could help scientists control root emergence and battle dry conditions brought on by climate changeCredit: Monica Moriak/ University of ...

A sustainable alternative to crude oil

The synthesis of bio-based high-performance polyamide from biogenic residuesCredit: Cordt Zollfrank / TUM A research team from the Fraunhofer Society ...

Unique centromere type discovered in the European dodder

Credit: Jiri Macas České Budějovice/Gatersleben, 27.01.2020 Whenever the European dodder, Cuscuta europaea, is under scientific scrutiny, it usually is due ...

United Nations award goes to company born out of university pollution project

An energy start-up in India, formed out of an Aston University scheme, has won a prestigious United Nations' award for ...

White lupin: The genome of this legume has finally been sequenced

Credit: Benjamin Peret/CNRS White lupin is a particularly abstemious crop, requiring very little fertiliser and producing high-protein seeds of great ...

The skin of the earth is home to pac-man-like protists

January 24, 2020

Credit: STRI Pac-Man, the open-mouthed face of the most successful arcade game ever, is much more well-known than any of ...

Dance of the honey bee reveals fondness for strawberries

January 24, 2020

Research team led by the University of Göttingen investigates foraging behavior in agricultural landscapesCredit: Svenja Bänsch, University of Göttingen Bees ...

The regulators active during iron deficiency