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Canberra, Australia (SPX) Mar 03, 2009CSIRO Plant Industry scientists and international collaborators have discovered the key to overcoming three major cereal diseases, which in epidemic years cost wheat growers worldwide in excess of AUS$7.8 billion. In a paper published today in the prestigious journal Science, scientists from CSIRO Plant Industry, the University of Zurich and the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center ... more EU nations refuse to force members to farm GM maize 
Brussels (AFP) March 2, 2009EU nations refused Monday to force Austria and Hungary to allow the cultivation of Monsanto genetically modified maize, defying a call from the European Commission, the Czech EU presidency said. Only five of the 27 European Union nations - Britain, Finland, the Netherlands, Sweden and Estonia - supported the EU executive's bid to force the two member states to lift their ban. In Vienna ... more UN report warns fishing industry on climate change 
Rome (AFP) March 1, 2009The fishing industry must do more to confront the effects of climate change as well as get a grip on the perennial problem of overfishing, said a UN report to be published Monday. The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture (SOFIA) report said responsible fishing practices must be more widely implemented and called for new strategies to cope with climate change. "Climate change is alrea ... more New Zealand Breeding Program Creates New Red Raspberry Variety 
Motueka NZ (SPX) Mar 03, 2009A horticultural research team from New Zealand and Canada has introduced a new red raspberry cultivar. 'Moutere' is a new floricane fruiting red raspberry (Rubus idaeus L.) created in a planned breeding program at The Horticulture and Food Research Institute of New Zealand Limited (recently renamed The New Zealand Institute of Plant and Food Research Limited (Plant and Food Research). ... more Modern Lifestyle Prevents Tooth Decay 
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 03, 2009New research has found that modern lifestyle habits may play a bigger role than food alone, when it comes to tooth decay. A review of the scientific evidence over the past 150 years found that the effects of fluoride toothpaste, good oral hygiene and health education, may override the effects of food alone on tooth decay. The research is published online in a Supplement to the journal Obes ... more |
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West Lafayette IN (SPX) Mar 03, 2009One of agriculture's most versatile crops could one day play a role in combating climate change, Purdue University research shows. In addition to using soybeans in beverages, biofuel, lip balm, crayons, candles and a host of other products, Purdue agricultural engineers Al Heber and Jiqin Ni found that soybean oil reduces greenhouse gas emissions when sprayed inside swine finishing barns. ... more Commercial Yeasts Upgraded With An Enzyme For Biofuel Production 
Frankfurt, Germany (SPX) Mar 03, 2009Eckhard Boles has discovered a new enzyme which teaches yeast cells to ferment xylose into ethanol. Xylose is an unused waste sugar in the cellulosic ethanol production process. The researchers have recently filed a patent application for their process. In industrial fermentation processes, the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is commonly used for ethanol production. Current bioethanol ... more Schwarzenegger declares California drought emergency 
Los Angeles (AFP) Feb 27, 2009California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on Friday declared a state of emergency and warned of possible mandatory water rationing as the state struggled through its third consecutive year of drought. Although the level of precipitation is 75 percent of the normal level this year, key state reserves are below 35 percent capacity, which has generated nearly three billion dollars in losses thi ... more Global warming could delay, weaken monsoons: study 
Chicago (AFP) March 1, 2009Global warming could delay the start of the summer monsoon by five to 15 days within the next century and significantly reduce rainfall in much of South Asia, a recent study has found. Rising global temperatures will likely lead to an eastward shift in monsoon circulation which could result in more rainfall over the Indian Ocean, Myanmar and Bangladesh but less over Pakistan, India and Nepal ... more China approves food safety law: state media 
Beijing (AFP) Feb 28, 2009China on Saturday approved a long-awaited food safety law, state media reported, in a bid to end repeated scandals involving dangerous food products in the country. The law has been in the works since October last year after a huge scandal erupted over contaminated milk which killed at least six children and sickened nearly 300,000 others in China. "The law will see the establishment of ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) Feb 26, 2009Chinese regulators have determined that baby powder made by US company Wyeth did not contain unsafe levels of the industrial chemical melamine, state media said Thursday. The country's product-safety regulator had looked into the company's baby powder following Chinese consumer accusations that it had caused kidney stones in children, Xinhua news agency said. However, Wyeth's products we ... more Satellite Data Provide New View Of Smoke From Wildfires 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Feb 26, 2009Scientists have a new tool for understanding how events in one region, such as wildfires, can affect air quality in areas far away. Observations from NASA's Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) show that the plumes of dust, smoke and particles from wildfires or volcanoes often rise past the atmospheric boundary layer, the turbulent lowest portion of the atmosphere, and are injected ... more Natives in Russia's far east worry about vanishing fish 
Veni, Russia (AFP) Feb 25, 2009There is only one family left in this once-thriving fishing village on the northeastern shores of Sakhalin Island, where the Nivkhs, a small indigenous ethnic group, have lived for centuries. But on a recent winter day, Pyotr Popka was not lamenting the fact that there are only 2,500 of his fellow Nivkhs on Sakhalin or that only several dozen of them can still converse in the Nivkh language ... more Vietnam battling hoof-and-mouth outbreak 
Saigon, Vietnam (UPI) Feb 24, 2009 Vietnamese agriculture officials say hoof-and-mouth disease has been detected in nine provinces during the past three weeks The latest outbreak was reported in central Quang Ngai province, where 19 cows were found to be infected, the Voice of Vietnam radio reported Tuesday. Fifty cows were also found to be infected in Nghe An province. Bird flu has been reported in 10 provinces i ... more Orbital's Launch Of Taurus Rocket Is Unsuccessful 
Dulles VA (SPX) Feb 25, 2009Orbital Sciences has announced that the launch of its Taurus XL rocket, which lifted off at 4:55 a.m. (EST) from Vandenberg Air Force Base, CA., carrying the company-built Orbiting Carbon Observatory satellite for NASA, did not achieve orbit. Preliminary indications are that the payload fairing on the Taurus XL vehicle failed to separate. The fairing is a clamshell structure which ... more
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